Achttien Maanden in Zuid-Amerika.

GERSTAECKER, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian, translated by A.W. van Campen.

Edité par G.T.N. Suringar

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3 volumes. Large 8°, original yellow printed wrappers (reinforced, spines cracked and loosening, front wrapper of volume I detached). Two plates a bit dampstained. Internally fine; overall in good condition (needs binding). (3 ll.), 295 pp.; (3 ll.), 303 pp.; (4 ll.), 304 pp., each volume with a lithographic frontispiece. *** First and only Dutch translation of Gerstäcker's recently published Achtzehn Monate in Süd-Amerika und dessen deutschen Colonien. The collection, describing the author's eighteen months in South America, includes chapters on Ecuador, Quito, Guayaquil, Peru, the Amazon River, the route from Callao to Valparaiso and from there to Valdivia, Patagonia, Cape Horn, and Uruguay. The lengthy section on Brazil (III, 130-287) mentions Porto Alegre, Rio Grande, Santa Catarina, and Rio de Janeiro.Gerstäcker (1816-1872), novelist and travel writer, son of a famous opera singer, left his native Germany at age 21 to wander through the United States. Upon his return 6 years later he found that his mother's publication of his New World sketches had made him famous. From 1849 to 1852 Gerstäcker visited North and South America, Polynesia, and Australia. In 1860, with German immigration in mind, he revisited South America, recording his observations in this work, published in 1863. Gerstäcker left 44 volumes of published works that were quite influential: his short story Germelshausen was adopted as the plot of the musical Brigadoon (1954).*** Cf. Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 349: the Leipzig, 1863 edition. Not located in Jisc. NUC: DLC.

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• Titre: Achttien Maanden in Zuid-Amerika.
• Éditeur: G.T.N. Suringar
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale