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Death Ship

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A New Orleans born sailor's ship left without him after a night's stop, taking all his forms of identifaction with it. He was sent all over Europe trying to find a place to stay, or another ship to sail on, but no one could help him becuase of the missing ID. Eventually the "Yorikke" comes by and picks him up. It's the infamous death ship that changes his life completely. The author, B. Traven, is one of the most mysterious authors there are to date. As a young man, he was known as Ret Marut, the publisher of an underground anarchist magazine in Germany called "The Brick Thrower". He kept his personal life a complete secret, including his name, which was changed multiple times. No one knows what the B stands for, or where the name even came from. This book is definitely one of my favorites. It takes no time at all to really get into it, and once you do, you can't put it down. It takes you on a journey across Europe with the main character, and then onto the ship. It goes into great detail once on the "Yorikke" and you really get a feeling of what the other hopeless sailors are going through. This book is really unforgetable.