Rifland
RIFLAND. Today's Travel Adventure was the title of a series of Austrian booklet novels published by Vettermann & Co. in Vienna from 1950–1953 . The series comprised 24 numbers and 2 special numbers and described in the first person the adventures of the fictional hero "Eldon Rifland" in South America.
Title of the booklet series
1. Back to the Amazon 2. Estanzia Alcante 3. The adventure in the Atlantic 4. The great expedition 5. With the poison arrow Indians of the Selvas 6. In the jungle at Kulisehu 7. The mystery of the missing 8. Among the headhunters of the Xingu 9. With Tschi-schi to Rio 10. Before the death lagoons 11. Winnetou and the Huanakuna 12. The last rapids 13. The yacht of the Great Gong 14. Cardona's shadow 15. In search of Gloria 16. In the saddle to the cordillera 17. At the wild Tehuelchen 18. The valley of the Araucans 19. On the escape to Amahua 20. Enigmatic traces 21. Flight to the Amazon 22. The house on the lagoon 23. In the realm of the mountain lions 24. The face of the Corsa
Volumes 21 and 22, as explained in No. 21, were not originally planned and were only added to the series at a later date, which can also be seen in the reduced coloring of the cover pictures.
Special issues
1. Encounters with animals in the jungle 2. From cabin boy to world traveler
author
According to the online catalog of the German National Library, the pseudonym Rifland hides a certain Egon Schott-Steiner , about whom nothing is known.
content
The sovereign and omniscient first-person narrator stands unmistakably in the tradition of Karl May's Indian stories, which is also alluded to in the title of Volume 11, "Winnetou and the Huanakuna". Characteristic is the beginning of the book "Vom Kongo zum Amazonas" , which appeared in 1954 under the pseudonym ES Rifland in Rifland-Verlag, Vienna-Hamburg-Zurich and was declared as the beginning of a book series ("Rifland series No. 1"), but remained without a successor. The hero takes part under a pseudonym in a competition to find a "new Rifland" and beats all competitors out of the field, thus confirming the uniqueness of the real Rifland.