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1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction: A Player in the Rainforest; Prologue; Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Epilogue |
| Summary |
"Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Rubber plantation workers -- Amazon River Region -- Fiction
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Rubber plantations -- Amazon River Region -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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FICTION / Literary
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Rubber plantations
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Rubber plantation workers
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Detective and mystery stories
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Spanish fiction
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Amazon River Region
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| Genre/Form |
Adventure stories
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novels.
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Adventure stories
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Novels
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Fiction
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Novels.
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Fiction.
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Romans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- translator, writer of introduction.
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| LC no. |
2018000302 |
| ISBN |
9780822371762 |
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0822371766 |
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