The book was written by a true sailor, every page seems to be soaked in sea salt and full of a fierce wind. She leaves no doubt that in his youth Traven served on a merchant ship plying along the Pacific coast of North and South Africa, delivered a cargo of cotton from New Orleans to Antwerp, dealt with smugglers...

The previously existing translation of “The Ship” of the Dead" is not complete, the structure of the novel is broken. For the first time, the reader is offered the full text of the great novel.