Karl May Friends

Some time ago, someone asked me which of the many Karl May novels I had translated was my favourite; I couldn't readily say, because in a way they're all my favourites because most belong to my favourite 'May genre': the Wild West tales with Winnetou. However, there is one work that stands out, and will always give the year 2011 its special place - and that's the 2012 Anniversary Edition of The Treasure In Silver-Lake. The 100 pages of introduction to the special edition will make abundantly clear why.
Upon reflection, Out of Vandaemonia(*) and The Rodriganda Romances(*) take equal first place because of the colour illustrations I created for those two volumes.
And then there is the biography, Savage To Saint, probably because it was the first English language biography of Karl May. One of the more unusual favourites is the pirate tale of Captured at Sea, in which Winnetou visits Germany for the first time.
The Travels of Winnetou & Shatterhand (Satan & Iscariot) because of the missing romance part ... and Old Shatterhand-Genesis ...
But while these seven books readily jump out as equally memorable, so does every one of the Adventure Novels, and every one of the Travel Fiction Novels.
In the end, and because of the unusual circumstances of the creative processes involved, I must admit that the 2012 Anniversary Edition of The Treasure In Silver-Lake, and Out of Vandaemonia  are my equal favourites of the splendid collection of books.
*(Out of Vandaemonia and The Rodriganda Romances were both created as novels with colour illustrations, available POD.  The colour versions of both works are available only from the author/translator - contact M Bugmann via contact page for availability.

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