by James Oliver Curwood · Editorial Juventud, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426109132
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«El valle de los hombres silenciosos» is the adventure novel by James Oliver Curwood, published by Editorial Juventud in hardback (208 pages).
The story takes place in northern Canada, where the railway is beginning to open a path through wild territory. Sergeant Kent, a tracker with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, believes he is dying and confesses to a crime he did not commit; the statement frees an imprisoned man, but Kent recovers and remains facing the gallows.
This edition belongs to the collection «Colección obras maestras»; the English original was published in 1920 as «The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country».
For readers of adventure classics and mystery novels set in the wild.
James Oliver Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, according to Publishers Weekly. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid author in the world.
