02408cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000270012624500300015326400510018330000470023433600260028133700260030733800360033350000310036950800870040052013160048753400650180365300240186865300220189265300320191465300500194685600430199699900190203977625UtSlPG20260610134810.0mcr n260607r20261929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a30001816  aUtSlPG 7ade2iso639-1 4aPT1 aTraven, B.,d1882-196914aDie Brücke im Dschungel 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-06  aJens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net  aDie Brücke im Dschungel by B. Traven is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in the Mexican jungle around a precarious bridge and a pump station, it follows an itinerant narrator and his acquaintance Sleigh among Indigenous villagers as a festive night turns grave when a small boy disappears by the river. The story foregrounds parental love, communal bonds, and the ever-present danger of the wilderness while tracing the uneasy ties between outsiders and locals.

The opening of the novel introduces the narrator’s chance meetings with Sleigh, an American who lives among Indigenous people, then shifts to a riverside settlement preparing for a dance. Music fails to arrive, but the village gathers: Garza fiddles, his wife Carmelita tends the family, and their exuberant son Carlos dotes on his older half-brother Manuel, home from Texas. In the thick, moonless night a single splash goes largely unnoticed; when Carlos vanishes, rumors swirl that he rode off, while Carmelita becomes convinced he fell from the unrailed bridge—his new boots betraying him. The community sparks fires along the banks, dives in the murky water, and sweeps the shore with torches in a solemn, collective search, as the scene closes on Manuel heading into the dark. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cBerlin: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1929  aVillages -- Fiction  aMexico -- Fiction  aMissing children -- Fiction  aIndians of North America -- Mexico -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77625  c118345d118345