B Traven

Three American adventurers decide to invest their resources in a dangerous search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico.

From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven's epic multi-volume "Jungle Novel" series. An astonishing portrait of Mexican life in the early twentieth century, the story follows a young Indian named Andres Ugalde as he struggles to break free of debt slavery around the time of the Revolution.

Though Aslan Norval is wealthy beyond measure and contentedly married to an aging businessman, she finds herself tormented with the desire to do something epic, something no man has dared to do: she decides to build a canal across the continental United States. With the help of an uncouth Korean War veteran-whom she appoints as her right-hand man and unlikely lover-she forms a public corporation. A congressional committee of investigators, prodded...

B Traven's Jungle Novels comprises six books written during the 1930s that observe the poor conditions of the Mexican Indians living in the southern state of Chiapas, whose forced work under exploitative conditions and labor camps foment rebellion and start the beginnings of the Mexican Revolution. This last installment of Traven's legendary Jungle novels sees the completion of Ivan R Dee's fictional multi-volume retelling of the Mexican Revolution....

Originally published in 1936, Traven captures the struggle for freedom of the enslaved Indians against labor agents in this thrilling, action-packed account.

The Bridge in the Jungle is a novel by the late author B Traven.

Con un estilio sobrio, sencillo y directo B. Traven recrea varias anecdotas que seguramente vivio y en las cuales puede disfrutarse la bucolica sabiduria de un indio artista frente a la obtusa vision de la modernidad en Canastitas en serie o el inefable sentido comun de un modesto minero en El suplicio de San Antonio. El mundo urbano del Mexico de los cuarenta tambien asoma en este fonograma, cuya lectura estuvo a cargo de Francisco Rebolledo, en...

Gold in the hills, avarice in the hearts of men. Two hard-luck drifters and a grizzled prospector discover gold. Then greed and paranoia set in. This tale of treasure is #30 on AFI's list of 100 Greatest Films, stars AFI's #1 Male Star, and was nominated for 4 Academy Awards. Includes: documentaries Warner Bros. Legends: Bogart at His Best and John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick.

Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune.