biography
| name: |
Gerstäcker, Friedrich
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pronunciation:
[gersteker]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1816–72)
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| biography:
| Writer and traveller, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He worked his way through the USA, South America, Polynesia, and Australia, and wrote colourful adventure stories, including Mississippi River Pirates (1848). |
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