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Originally Posted by montealan
Anything by B. Traven
He wrote Treasure of the Sierra Madre but his jungle books (five in the series) were great. The books cover the treatment of the peons in Mexico during the early part of the 20th Century, and the eventual uprising: General From the Jungle, March to the Montera are two of the titles I remember.
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Absolutely! my particular favourite is "The Death Ship". It's not part of the Jungle novels, but a stand-alone book, very politically charged and funny. It's simply brilliant!