Book description
The continent lay before them, vast areas of it unexplored, its
forests, plains, jungle and mountains teeming with forms of life unknown
to modern man. Here the witch-doctors reigned supreme, using their
inexplicable and remarkable powers on men and beasts. The purpose of the
safari was mysterious, its members an oddly assorted group of people
unlikely to have any sane objective in common . . . James Blish
(1921-75) studied microbiology at Rutgers and then served as a medical
laboratory technician in the US army during the Second World War. Among
his best known books are Cities in Flight, A Case of Conscience, for
which he won the Hugo in 1959 for Best Novel, Doctor Mirabilis, Black
Easter and The Day After Judgement.
