Book description
There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the
hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's
surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is
sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the footh Ursula LeGuin
was born in Berkeley, California in 1929. She attended college at
Radcliffe and Columbia, and married C. A. LeGuin in Paris in 1951. The
LeGuins and their three children live in Portland, Oregon.
