The Death Ship tells the story of an American sailor, stateless and penniless because he has lost his passport, who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an 'illegal' job shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction.

The Death Ship is the first of B. Traven's politically charged novels about life among the downtrodden, which have sold more than thirty million copies in thirty-six languages. Next to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it is his most celebrated work

This first English translation of Trozas, the fourth of Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, brings to completion his epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. A fine and powerful novel...stark in its drama, steamy in its setting, acidic in its irony, relentless in its narrative thrust. Alan Ryan, Washington Post"

With the first publication in English of Trozas, B. Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution, are complete. Trozas is the fourth of the six Jungle Novels that describe the conditions of peonage and debt slavery under which Mexican Indians suffered during the reign of Porfirio Diaz. The main character of the novel is a young Indian named Andres Ugaldo, a virtual slave worker in a monteria---mahogany plantation--which is purchased by the profit ?hungry Montellano brothers, widely despised for their brutal treatment of workers. The demands on Andres and...

Mit genauem und realistischem Blick beschreibt B. Traven die Zwangsarbeit der Indios in den Holzfällerlagern in Südmexiko. Unterdrückung und Ausbeutung der indianischen Bevölkerung durch die spanischen Großgrundbesitzer führten 1910 zur Revolution. Traven gelingt es, einerseits die besondere Lage in Südamerika historisch exakt und lebendig wiederzugeben. Andererseits ist es aber auch möglich, seine Schilderung der sozialen Ungerechtigkeit, der Profitgier und der persönlichen Willkür der Machthaber auf analoge welthistorische Situationen zu übertragen.