It was as though over this solid dense world of plants floated a call urging creation to beget a new planet, a fantastic one in which not man or beas… - B. Traven

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It was as though over this solid dense world of plants floated a call urging creation to beget a new planet, a fantastic one in which not man or beast would be the master but plants. One felt lonely and abandoned, separated from all the remaining world, in spite of the long file of peons and the grunting and snorting pack animals marching along mechanically. The marchers, men and animals, seemed to move without volition, almost dreamlike, into the world of plants to be swallowed up by it.

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About B. Traven

(Bruno Traven in some accounts, born 23 February 1882 in Schwiebus, died 26 March 1969 in Mexico City) was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including (1927). The film adaptation of the same name won three Academy Awards in 1948.

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Pen Names: Robert Bek-gran Hal Croves Ret Marut Richard Maurhut Traven Torsvan Fred Gaudet Fred Mareth Bruno Marhut Red Marut Rex Marut Robert Marut Fred Maruth Goetz Öhly Anton Raderscheidt Wilhelm Scheider Jacob Torice B. T. Torsvan Berick Traven Torsvan Traves Torsvan Heinrich Otto Becker Adolf Rudolf Feige Herman Albert Otto Max Feige Otto Feige T. Torsvan Otto Wienecke Bruno Traven Albert Otto Max Wienecke
Alternative Names: Torsvan Berick Torsvan Bernhard Traven Torsvan Torsvan Croves Traven

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