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100 1 _aMay, Karl,
_d1842-1912
245 1 0 _aDurchs wilde Kurdistan
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aGesammelte Reiseromane, Band II
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-25
508 _aMarkus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Durchs wilde Kurdistan" by Karl May is an adventure novel written in the late 19th century. Set among Kurdish tribes and the Yazidi community, it follows a European narrator known as the Emir and his loyal companion Hadschi Halef Omar as they navigate religious rites, tribal politics, and looming conflict with Ottoman forces. The story blends travel, intrigue, and tactically clever confrontations in a rugged, mountainous setting. The opening of the novel places the protagonists in the sacred valley of Sheikh Adi during a great Yazidi festival, vividly describing torchlit rites, music, and a symbolic rooster ceremony while tensions rise over an impending Ottoman assault. The Emir scouts mysterious lights, discovers an Ottoman mountain-artillery detachment, and—using deception and swift riders—captures the gunners and their four pieces without bloodshed, then has Yazidi cannoneers don Turkish uniforms to bait the enemy. As Ottoman troops under Miralai Omar Amed enter the valley, they are hit by their own reclaimed guns; the Emir briefly confronts the furious commander, brandishing imperial travel permits to avoid arrest, and narrowly dodges a shot. Parallel threads include Ali Bey’s disciplined preparations, the hidden evacuation to Idiz, Pir Kamek’s ominous talk of sacrifice, and the comic bravado of Buluk Emini Ifra, ending with the battle about to intensify. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cFreiburg i. B.: Verlag von Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld, 1892
653 _aAdventure stories
653 _aKurdistan -- Fiction
653 _aGerman fiction -- 19th century
830 0 _aGesammelte Reiseromane, Band II
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76382
999 _c117107
_d117107