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The death ship : the story of an American sailor / B. Traven ; [foreword by John Anthony West].
LIBRA - Special PT3919.T7 T613 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traven, B.
- Standardized Title:
- Totenschiff. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Seafaring life--Fiction.
- Seafaring life.
- Sailors--Fiction.
- Sailors.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 372 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : L. Hill Books, 1991.
- Summary:
- 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
- Notes:
- Translation of: Totenschiff.
- ISBN:
- 1556521103
- 9781556521102
- OCLC:
- 24067808
- Online:
- Publisher description
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