Project Gutenberg 2025-04-19 Public domain in the USA. 308 Traven, B. 1882 1969 Feige, Hermann Albert Otto Max Wienecke, Albert Otto Max Marut, Ret Torsvan, Berick Traven Croves, Hal Das Totenschiff : $b Die Geschichte eine amerikanischen Seemanns $aBerlin :$bBuchmeister, $c1926. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Ship https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Totenschiff Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. "Das Totenschiff: Die Geschichte eines amerikanischen Seemanns" by B. Traven is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book centers on the experiences of an American sailor who, after being left behind by his ship in Europe, struggles with statelessness and the bureaucratic nightmares faced by those without official papers. Through the eyes of its protagonist, the novel explores themes of alienation, identity, and the impersonal cruelty of modern institutions. The opening of the novel introduces the unnamed American sailor, recounting his recent voyage from New Orleans to Antwerp aboard the S.S. Tuscaloosa. After missing his ship's departure, he becomes trapped in a Kafkaesque maze of police interrogations, detention, and forced border crossings, all made worse by his lack of proper identification or seaman’s papers. The narrative, laced with dry humor and irony, follows his attempts to find work or assistance, the indifference and coldness of officials, and the camaraderie (and occasional generosity) of ordinary people. From Antwerp to Rotterdam and across borders, the protagonist’s predicament illustrates the vulnerability and invisibility of the working man in a world governed by paperwork and rigid national boundaries. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003529464?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=traven%20&sort=yearup&ft= 20220101062540traven 1926 de Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. de Sea stories Fantasy fiction PT Text Category: Novels Category: German Literature 670732 2025-06-30T05:35:50.275917 text/html 644423 2025-04-19T10:51:22 text/html 1058455 2025-06-30T05:35:59.339902 application/epub+zip 1056103 2025-06-30T05:35:51.878907 application/epub+zip 414739 2025-06-30T05:35:51.077935 application/epub+zip 1190584 2025-06-30T05:36:04.939888 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1129957 2025-06-30T05:35:58.499929 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 612912 2025-06-30T05:35:48.981947 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 593026 2025-04-19T10:51:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16687 2025-06-30T05:36:05.188841 application/rdf+xml 16694 2025-06-30T05:35:51.262907 image/jpeg 3025 2025-06-30T05:35:51.169923 image/jpeg 1103957 2025-06-30T05:35:50.362971 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia