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008			180403s19711971usa 000 0 eng d
020			_a9781566630467
082	1		_aFIC TRA _2
100	1		_aTraven, B.
245	1	0	_aMarch to the montería _c/ B. Traven
260			_aChicago _b: Elephant Paperbacks _c, 1971
300			_a227 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	1		_aJungle Novels #3
520			_aMarch to the Monteria is the third of B. Traven's six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterias) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Here Traven relates the life of Celso, a young Indian whose only goal is to earn enough pesos to purchase a bride. He works two years on a coffee finca, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them. Celso then goes off to work two years in a monteria but he is such a good worker that he is thrown in jail on a trumped-up charge to assure that he will stay. When he is bailed out by the labor agent, he heads off for a term of debt-slavery in the monteria, from which, it is clear, he will never return. Having already forfeited his life, Celso has nothing to lose and takes his vengeance on agents and overseers. As in the other Jungle Novels, Traven traces the beginnings of consciousness which ultimately led to the Mexican Revolution and the overthrow of the Diaz regime.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aJungles _v--Fiction
650		4	_aPlantations _v--Fiction
651		4	_aMexico _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
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