Earthworks

Essef - Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which J. Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-travellerand captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong. Choked, disease-ridden towns, robots and prison gangs tending the bare, poisond renched countryside are all characteristic of Knowle's world; only in Africa is the soil still fertile and the people still relatively vital...