A fantastic little story about American workers in 1920s Mexico, attempting to find their fortune whilst feverishly guarding their secret accumulation of wealth from sadistic, roaming bandits. Mexico in this novel is a place where working people are thrown about from poor paying job to poor payin...
This amazing book may be the unsung masterpiece of the 20th century. First published in English while the Second World War was raging, and coloured by the author's radical politics, it sort of escaped notice, unlike some of his other works, most notably Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was a g...
1st from taven for me. the death ship, the story of an american sailor, b. traven, 1934, forward by john anthony west, saugerties, new york, april, 1991there is song of an american sailor on a white page...forget the name of those things...stanzas? i dunno. the thing is 12-lines long, broken u...
Ahh.. What a pleasure it is to give this bk a good review! The 1st bk I read of Traven's was probably "The Death Ship" - wch details the slow decay of a sailor's life as a result of facets of 'modern' life that the author & I abhor in common - like nationalistic borders & parasitic capitalism (...