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Set just after World War One , ''The Death Ship'' describes the predicament of Merchant Seamen who lack documentation of Citizenship and cannot find legal residence or employment in any nation. The narrator is Gerard Gales, an American sailor originally from New Orleans , who is stranded in Antwerp without Passport or working papers. Unable to prove his Identity or his eligibility for employment, Gales is repeatedly arrested and Deported from one country to the next, by government officials who do not want to be bothered with either assisting or prosecuting him. When he manages to find work, it is on the ''Yorikke'', the dangerous and decrepit ship of the title, where undocumented workers from around the world are treated as expendable slaves. There are several versions of the novel: after the original German text (possibly written in English first) was translated in the United Kingdom , Traven wrote a slightly longer version in English. It was adapted into the 1959 Film of the same name (also known as ''Ship of the Dead''), directed by Georg Tressler . |
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