Must Read for Germans Down Under

I love my Kindle and my new black denim cover. It took me a while to get used to it since I really enjoy flicking pages in a real book, especially to flick back to a page I really liked or just to browse a bit. But now I like the Kindle especially the fact that I can read a German book at any time, I just need to download it. I did some book reviews before but this is my first e-book review, so here we go:
Friedrich Gerstäcker: Australien

While browsing the Kindle-shop the other day I came across this book. Its title and price (0 Euro) convinced me to download it straight away. I got hooked after reading just a few pages and I did some research on the author who's name I had never heard before. Friedrich Gerstäcker was born in Hamburg in 1816 and was able to travel the world and live of the sales of his travel books. He is most famous for his books about Northern America. In 1849 he sailed to Sydney. His plan was to built a kayak and travel from Albury to Adelaide on the Murray river. This book is absolutely fascinating for me, especially his detailed descriptions of Sydney, the Australian landscape, aboriginal people and the daily life of immigrants, gold diggers and farmers. All that he does with great humour and sarcasm and often I was laughing about his descriptions. Even in dangerous situations like attacks from aborigines, travels on a stagecoach at breakneck speed or loss of his kayak the author sticks to his humorous attitude. He visited a lot of places that I got to know too, only 150 years later. Some things have changed a lot (state of the roads) some have not (number of drunk ladies on the above).