The Cotton-Pickers (Jungle Novels)
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About this book
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 bunkhe works on a cotton plantation in an oil field in a bakery as a cowboy for a North American ranch owner. Opposing exploitation he leaves behind him a trail of rebellion. Underlying this lively and funny tale of his adventures is a powerful study of social injustice and most of all a testament to the strength of human courage and dignity one of Travens favorite themes. "B. Traven is coming to be recognized as one of the narrative masters of the twentieth century."New York Times Book Review. "Great storytellers often arise like Judaic just men to exemplify and rehearse the truth for their generation. The elusive B. Traven was just such a man."Book World.
