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Los Vagabundos de la Cosecha
Contributor(s): Steinbeck, John (Author), Lange, Dorothea (Photographer), Alcaraz, Marta (Translator)

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 ISBN: 8493544817     ISBN-13: 9788493544812
Publisher: Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.
OUR PRICE: $14.45  

Binding Type: Paperback
Language: Spanish
Published: May 2007
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism
- History | United States - 21st Century
Series: Libros del Asteroide
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.8" W x 7.7" L (0.30 lbs) 86 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
Features: Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
In the early 1930s, when the country was in the throes of the Great Depression, a drought devastated the American Midwest, expelling from their farms tens of thousands of farmers who were forced to migrate in search of work. It is calculated that almost 150 thousand Americans wandered the roads of California, offering their services as temporary workers for the harvest. In spite of their having been necessary in order to collect all the crops, the localsreceived them with hatred and disdain, calling them ignorant, dirty, and carriers of disease. John Steinbeck, then a promising young writer, wrote a series of articles on these migrantworkers, published in 1936 in the "San Francisco News.""A comienzos de los anos treinta, cuando el pais atravesaba la Gran Depresion, una persistente sequia asolo el medio oeste de los Estados Unidos, expulsando de sus granjas a decenas de miles de campesinos que se vieron obligados a emigrar en busca de trabajo. Se calcula que cerca de150 mil norteamericanos vagaban por las carreteras del estado de California ofreciendose como temporeros para la cosecha. A pesar de ser imprescindibles para llevar a cabo la recoleccion, eran recibidos con odio y menosprecio por los habitantes de las localidades por donde pasaban, tachados de ignorantes, sucios y portadores de enfermedades. John Steinbeck, entonces un prometedor escritor, los retrato en una serie de reportajes aparecidos en 1936 enel" San Francisco News."
 
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