Continuum Impacts are seminal works by some of the finest minds in Western thoug
ht that created a storm when they were first published, and continue to resonate
in this new series. Strikingly designed to complement the controversial nature
of the thoughts within, Impacts are essential reading for independent thinkers e
verywhere. Karl May's most popular work originally published in 1892 and influen
ced by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Winnetou is the story of a young Apache chief told
by his white friend and blood-brother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place i
n the U.S. Southwest, in the latter half of the 1800s, where the Indian way of l
ife is threatened by the first transcontinental railroad. Winnetou, the only Nat
ive Indian chief who could have united the various rival tribes to reach a settl
ement with the whites, is murdered. His tragic death foreshadows the death of hi
s people. May's central theme here, as in much of his work, is the relationship
between aggression, racism, and religious intolerance.
