Winnetou (Continuum Impacts)
 

Winnetou (Continuum Impacts)

by Karl May

Karl May's most popular work originally published in 1892 and influenced by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Winnetou is the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and blood-brother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place in the U.S. Southwest, in the latter half of the 1800s, where the Indian way of life is threatened by the first transcontinental railroad. Winnetou, the only Native... (read more)

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cristina g
  • Rated 4 stars

Winnetou became the chief of the tribe of the Mescalero Apaches (and of the Apaches in general, with the Navaho included) after his father Intschu-tschuna and his sister Nscho-tschi were slain by the white bandit Santer. He rode a horse called Iltschi ("Wind") and had a famous rifle called "Silberbüchse" ("The Silver Gun", a double-barrel rifle whose stock and butt were decorated with silver studs). Old Shatterhand became the blood brother of Winnetou and rode the brother of Iltschi, called...

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Soundchaser
  • Rated 1 stars

Una dintre cartile citite in copilarie.

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  • Alex Zanardi

    alex zanardi said:

    Great book.

    posted Saturday, December 8 2007
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