The Danube Pilot
The pilot of the Danube River ( also The Danube Pilot, The Danube The Danube boatmen or pilot ) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, who wrote the manuscript in 1901. The novel was first published posthumously in 1908 by the publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel. A pre - publication first appeared under the original French title Le Pilote du Danube in the Le Journal in the period from 24 September to 2 November 1908., The first German -language edition was published under the title The pilot of the Danube in November 1908. The English title of the novel is the Danube pilot.
Action
The people on the banks of the Danube are threatened by a criminal gang by robbery and murder. The population is troubled by the incidents. To date, the police could not believe the criminals. The detective Karl Dragoch receives a commission from all Danube riparian states the order to take the gang with the help of a special unit.
The fisherman Ilia Brusch, who has in a fishing competition in Sigmaringen won two first prizes, undertook publicly the Danube with his dinghy to sail down the river towards the Black Sea and on the road only to live on the proceeds of freshly caught fish. A stranger who claims to be a tourist named Hunter, Brusch himself urges in Ulm on as a passenger. The freedom fighters Serge Ladko who fights in Bulgaria against the rule of the Turks, is meanwhile mistaken for a criminal who used his name. In the traveling hunter is in fact the detective Dragoch and Brusch is the real Ladko. The criminal who uses the name of Ladko, is actually called Striga and has Ladkos woman on a ship of his gang in his power. The river pirates are finally rendered harmless, with the help of real Ladko. This eventually takes on board the vessel, Flusspiraten his beloved wife again.
Radio feature
- Bernhard Setzwein: The beautiful yellow Danube. A river novel by Jules Verne. Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2002