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A cult masterpiece and a darkly comic tale of survival on the high seas Whoever survived the Yorikke could never be frightened any more during his lifetime by anything Stateless and stranded after he loses his passport, sailor Gerald Gales flees arrest and persecution across Europe, until he finally finds work on the Yorikke, a decrepit 'death ship' bound for destruction. Condemned to stoke the furnaces, Gales must navigate a labyrinth of surreal rules and the brutal realities of life at sea if he is to make it out alive. First published in 1926 and thought to bear the traces of the mysterious author B. Traven's own experience of migrating to Mexico, The Death Ship is a darkly absurd, raging tale about what it takes to survive when life is cheap.

About the Author :
Little is known for certain about the life of B. Traven; a prolific writer, he is best known for his beloved adventure novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and the Jungle Novels, a series set during and after the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution, with proletarian, anarchist themes. During his lifetime, he was variously (and incorrectly) identified as the son of Kaiser Wilhelm I, or a North German brickmaker, but it is now believed that he was born Moritz Rathenau in Germany in 1882, the illegitimate son of Emil Rathenau, the founder of AEG and Helen Mareck, an Irish actress. He lived for some time as Ret Marut, a merchant seaman, actor, journalist and politician, and left Germany in 1923 after having been sentenced to death for his part in the Bavarian Revolution. He arrived in Mexico in 1924, where he dedicated himself to writing full time. Traven married Rosa Elena Lujan in 1957 and died in Mexico City in 1969.

Review :
The greatest of Traven's works, it is a good-humored but devastating attack on bureaucracy and the state B. Traven is coming to be recognized as one of the narrative masters of the twentieth century Traven's philosophical anarchism, his disengagement, his scorn for regimentation and material goods and his love of individual liberty and the primitive past could, conceivably, command as much reverence form the new generation as does Henry David Thoreau He tells his story better than the best storytellers; delves deeper into characters than most so-called psychological writers. All the virility, terseness and tension that Hemingway worked so hard for...seem to be Traven's by birthright Traven was above all a passionate defender of the victims of society, a man who hated injustice… His books were marvellous affirmations of his faith in the beaten man and his stories were permeated with a great and single-minded vision


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780241822210
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 500 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0241822211
  • Publisher Date: 20 Aug 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Width: 129 mm


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