Los argonautas
By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Cover: A Spanish xebec and other commercial craft near Gibraltar (1873) by Vilhelm Melbye (1824–1882) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1882)
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A Spanish writer sails from Europe to Buenos Aires on a great liner crowded with emigrants, adventurers and fortune-seekers bound for the New World. Over the long crossing, shipboard friendships, flirtations and stories trace the hopes Spain and Europe pin on South America. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.