B. Traven 1939 285p 5 x 8 With General from the Jungle, Traven complete’s the sixth and last of the legendary Jungle Novels, telling the birth of the Mexican Revolution. In General, a masterpiece on guerrilla warfare, Traven tells the story of Juan Mendez, perhaps the youngest and greatest … Continue reading The General From the Jungle
B. Traven 1936 260p 5 x 8 The fifth of Traven’s six Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. Set in the slave-labor mahogany plantations of tropical Mexico in 1910, at the time of the uprising against the rule of Porfirio Díaz … Continue reading The Rebellion of the Hanged
B. Traven 1933 240p 5 x 8 In the third of his six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations of southern Mexico in the years before the revolution, Traven traces the beginnings of consciousness which led to rebellion by the Indians who worked in debt slavery. Other … Continue reading March to the Monteria
B. Traven 1926 207p 5 x 8 The background of The Cotton-Pickers, set in Mexico in the 1920s, is the struggle of the emerging trade unions to end the exploitation of hungry laborers. Gales, a laconic American drifter, turns his hand to anything for a meal and a flea-bitten … Continue reading The Cotton-Pickers
B. Traven 1931 271p 5.5 x 8 In the second of his six Jungle Novels, Traven brings his remarkable narrative talents to bear on the coming of age of a young Indian oxcart driver and the oppressive world in which he must make his way. $7-15 Other works involving … Continue reading The Carreta
A Story of Ford-America Upton Sinclair 1937 119p 5 x 8 The Flivver King stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. It is history as it ought to be written – from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the two extremes. Its two … Continue reading The Flivver King