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... Gerstäcker was a voyager , an explorer in search of new Edens to inhabit , new seas to sail . He was always on the move , always settling , resettling , and unsettling , but he never ... GERSTÄCKER'S AMERICA Gerstäcker's America Alfred Kolb.
... Gerstäcker was a voyager , an explorer in search of new Edens to inhabit , new seas to sail . He was always on the move , always settling , resettling , and unsettling , but he never ... GERSTÄCKER'S AMERICA Gerstäcker's America Alfred Kolb.
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writings , 12 and certainly William Gilmore Simms ' themes are quite similar to Gerstäcker's . But Gerstäcker differed from his American contemporaries , writers such as Hawthorne , Thoreau , and Emer- son , in one very important way ...
writings , 12 and certainly William Gilmore Simms ' themes are quite similar to Gerstäcker's . But Gerstäcker differed from his American contemporaries , writers such as Hawthorne , Thoreau , and Emer- son , in one very important way ...
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... Gerstäcker was neither the first nor the last to have used this myth of the frontier . Hundreds have made use of it , in- cluding Crevecoeur , Franklin , Emerson , Whitman , Thoreau , and , of course , John F. Kennedy . But Gerstäcker ...
... Gerstäcker was neither the first nor the last to have used this myth of the frontier . Hundreds have made use of it , in- cluding Crevecoeur , Franklin , Emerson , Whitman , Thoreau , and , of course , John F. Kennedy . But Gerstäcker ...
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Gerstäckers America Alfred Kolb | 12 |
The Vision of the Child and | 22 |
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