B Traven
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March to the Monteria is the third volume in B. Traven's "Jungle Novels," a series of six books that depict the lives and injustices of the Mexican Indians prior the Revolution.
Known for his cult classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, made into a movie of the same name, the body of work by pseudonymous author B. Traven ("a riveting storyteller, The Philadelphia Inquirer) has endured now for decades.
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Creation of the Sun and the Moon is B.Traven's retelling of the beautiful Mexican legend of a young Indian hero who saves the world by rekindling the sun after it's been extinguished by evil spirits, from the reclusive author of The Treasure of Sierra Madre.
This novella includes color illustrations
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The first novel from the elusive author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Set in the 1920s in Mexico, B. Traven's The Cotton-Pickers tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts in and out of jobs-on a cotton plantation, an oil field, in a pastry shop, and on a ranch-exposing the dangerous exploitation at each station and fomenting workers' rights along the way. Adventurous, funny, and full of humanity, The Cotton-Pickers challenges and delights...
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B Traven's Jungle Novels comprises six books written during the 1930s that observe the poor conditions of the Mexican Indians living in the southern state of Chiapas, whose forced work under exploitative conditions and labor camps foment rebellion and start the beginnings of the Mexican Revolution.
This last installment of Traven's legendary Jungle novels sees the completion of Ivan R Dee's fictional multi-volume retelling of the Mexican Revolution....
7) Government
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The story follows Don Gabriel, a bureaucratic official in an isolated government outpost in a remote village. He comes to oversee the enslavement of Indians and ships them off to forced labor on the mahogany plantations owned by foreign investors.
8) The Carreta
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From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven's epic multi-volume "Jungle Novel" series.
An astonishing portrait of Mexican life in the early twentieth century, the story follows a young Indian named Andres Ugalde as he struggles to break free of debt slavery around the time of the Revolution.
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Though Aslan Norval is wealthy beyond measure and contentedly married to an aging businessman, she finds herself tormented with the desire to do something epic, something no man has dared to do: she decides to build a canal across the continental United States. With the help of an uncouth Korean War veteran-whom she appoints as her right-hand man and unlikely lover-she forms a public corporation. A congressional committee of investigators, prodded...