Friedrich Gerstäcker

author

Friedrich Gerstäcker

1816–1872

Adventure, travel, and the wider world run through these stories from a German writer who turned years of roaming into vivid fiction and travel books. His work brought distant places like the Americas and Australia to readers who had never seen them for themselves.

53 Audiobooks

Wild Sports in the Far West

Wild Sports in the Far West

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Herrn Mahlhubers Reiseabenteuer

Herrn Mahlhubers Reiseabenteuer

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Eine Gemsjagd in Tyrol

Eine Gemsjagd in Tyrol

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Eine Mutter

Eine Mutter

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Californische Skizzen

Californische Skizzen

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Harhateillä

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Kreuz und Quer, Dritter Band

Kreuz und Quer, Dritter Band

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Kreuz und Quer, Erster Band

Kreuz und Quer, Erster Band

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Yö valaskalan selässä ja muita meriseikkailuja

Yö valaskalan selässä ja muita meriseikkailuja

by Holger Drachmann, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Jonas Lie

Aus zwei Welttheilen. Erster Band.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Aus dem Matrosenleben

Aus dem Matrosenleben

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Seikkailumatka

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Aus zwei Welttheilen. Zweiter Band.

Aus zwei Welttheilen. Zweiter Band.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Kunstreiter, 1. Band

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Hüben und Drüben; Erster Band (1/3)

Hüben und Drüben; Erster Band (1/3)

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Erbe: Roman. Erster Band.

Der Erbe: Roman. Erster Band.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Erbe: Roman. Dritter Band.

Der Erbe: Roman. Dritter Band.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Kreuz und Quer, Zweiter Band

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Unter Palmen und Buchen. Erster Band.

Unter Palmen und Buchen. Erster Band.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Karkuri

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Kunstreiter, 2. Band

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Erbe: Roman. Zweiter Band.

Der Erbe: Roman. Zweiter Band.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Kunstreiter, 3. Band

Der Kunstreiter, 3. Band

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Ein Parcerie-Vertrag

Ein Parcerie-Vertrag

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

About the author

Born in Hamburg on May 10, 1816, he became one of the best-known German adventure and travel writers of the 19th century. After a brief start in office work, he left for the United States in 1837 and spent years living a restless, wide-ranging life that later fed directly into his writing.

Back in Germany from the 1840s onward, he built a career from firsthand travel accounts, guides for emigrants, and novels set in places he had visited. He traveled widely again in South America, California, Australia, the South Sea islands, Egypt, Abyssinia, Mexico, Ecuador, and the West Indies, giving his books an unusual sense of movement and lived experience.

His stories were especially popular for their exciting plots and their sense of freedom and far-off possibility. He was a remarkably prolific author, and his work helped shape how German readers imagined life overseas in the age of migration and exploration. He died on May 31, 1872.