Dos suizos en la selva. Historias del auge cauchero en el Oriente boliviano

Two Swiss, two books, a single obsession: the exploitation of "black gold" in the of the "black gold" of the Amazon jungle, at the time of the rubber boom in eastern Bolivia. Just a few months apart, Franz Ritz and Ernst Leutenegger worked in the same rubber barracks the same rubber shack during the first decade of the twentieth century, and both later published their recollections in their native country. The editor's introduction prolifically shows, these stories the editor's introduction prolifically shows, these stories also allow us to go beyond the clichés, and to a large extent nuance the black-and-white visions of this crucial period for the Bolivian economy, the gradual incorporation of the East into the country and the fate of the Amazonian indigenous peoples.