The novel, written in verse, is about two brothers from the Irish island of Horse Island who head to Tibet to reach the top of the Flying Mountain.
The Chinese, the country of Kham, its inhabitants - nomads, are the setting for a story about a goal, persistence, longing, a search for an undiscovered, nameless mountain, perhaps the last "white spot" on the world map. It is also a novel about death and love.
At the heart of this fascinating multi-layered adventure novel is an authentic account of the fate of the Austro-Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1873.
Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...
Sipar, 2007.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.50 €
Teen Novels • German literature • Psychological novel
In the Cordilleras (1894) is an adventure novel, a sequel to On the Rio de la Plata, part of May's South American cycle. The book follows adventures in Argentina during the revolutions, emphasizing themes of justice, forgiveness, and the struggle with the
Stvarnost, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
4.52 - 7.32 €
Essays and diaries • German literature • Autobiographies and Memoirs
Goethe's greatest autobiographical prose, written between 1811 and 1833, covers his life from his birth in 1749 in Frankfurt to 1775, when he went to Weimar at the invitation of Duke Karl August.
Matica hrvatska, 1953.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The story of Karl Lakner, caught in the huge world machine of capitalism. A political and economic visionary novel by Rudolf Brunngraber from the 1930s.
Naklada Binoza, 1939.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The novel On the Rio de la Plata is the first part of a two-part adventure story by Karl May, continued in In the Cordilleras. The action takes place in South America, in Uruguay and Argentina, during the revolutionary turmoil of the 19th century.