"Collects in one volume the seven novels describing the saga of Maqroll el Gaviero from 'La nieve del almirante' (1986) to 'Tríptico de mar y tierra' (1993). The reader follows Maqroll's life of errancy and adventure, but eventually a powerful sense of dejá vu takes hold as Mutis overuses the exoticism that originally made his fiction so refreshing"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.