Author: B. Traven
Edition: pb
ISBN: 1556521103
Publisher: Lawrence Hill
Release Date: 4/7/2000
372 pages

DESCRIPTION:
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 first of B. Traven's politically charged novels about life among the downtrodden.
"Beginning as a kind of humorous satire on government bureaucracy and the absurdity of passports, it rises into a powerful sea-fantasia and ends up as a Moby Dick of the stokehold..." —The Saturday Review