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_aLeinster, Murray, _d1896-1975 |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from the August 15, 1929 issue of Adventure magazine. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-01-12 | ||
| 508 | _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark | ||
| 520 | _a"Boots: A Story of the Sierra of Peru" by Murray Leinster is a short story that falls within the adventure genre, written in the late 1920s. Set in the lush jungles and rugged mountains of Peru, the narrative explores themes of ambition, desperation, and the complex interactions between different cultures, particularly between Native Americans and white adventurers. The central plot revolves around the motivations and actions of the protagonist, Juan, as he navigates the arrival of three white men who embody both madness and opportunity. The story begins with Juan, a mostly Araucanian Indian, who maintains a simple life in the jungle until he encounters three destitute and seemingly insane white men on a quest for emeralds. As the men eat his meager food and tell wild stories about their fortunes, Juan's initial fear turns to scorn as he observes their hunger and gluttony. Fueled by his own feelings of inferiority and a desire to impress a beautiful woman back home, Juan's envy of the dark man's boots sparks a transformation within him. Tension escalates when he realizes that one of the men plans to betray the others for the emeralds. In a moment of fear and desperation, Juan acts decisively, killing the would-be murderer with a swift arrow. In the end, Juan takes the boots as a symbol of power and status, leaving the emeralds behind, highlighting the story's moral complexities and the thin line between sanity and madness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: The Butterick Publishing Company, 1929 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aIndians of South America -- Peru -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aAmericans -- Peru -- Fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from the August 15, 1929 issue of Adventure magazine. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/adventure-v-071-n-05-1929-08-15 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75096 |
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