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Title:

Earthworks
 

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Genres:

Science Fiction

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1965-00-00 Faber and Faber, London  

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Blurb: 
Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into whichj Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller and 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, poison drenched countryside are all characteristic of Knowle"s world; only in Africa is the soil still fertile and the people still relatively vital. On the coast of Africa, near Walvis Bay, Knowle runs his freighter aground; and there he meets Justine and the destructive destiny that purges him of guilt and frees him from hallucination.