B. Traven's third installment of his Jungle Novels follows an Indigenous Mexican laborer whose brutal experiences in the mahogany camps awaken him to the systemic exploitation around him.
At first, Celso Flores wants only enough money to marry the woman he loves. But after his hard-earned savings are seized by the local landowners, he is forced into the brutal world of the monterías, the remote mahogany camps where Indigenous workers are trapped in a cycle of debt, violence, and forced labor...


