Planet of Adventure
City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, The Pnume
The Tschai, Planet of Adventure Series
- By: Jack Vance
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 23 hours 2 minutes
Description
Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited-not only by warring alien cultures but by human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history. Reith must find a way off the planet to warn Earth of Tschai's deadly existence.Against a backdrop of baroque cities and haunted wastelands, sumptuous palaces and riotous inns, Reith will encounter deadly wastrels and murderous aliens, dastardly villains and conniving scoundrels-and always the random beauty in need of rescue.
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The Tschai, Planet of Adventure Series Series
City of the Chasch
By: Jack Vance
Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
When someone sent distress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai, it was Adam Reith's misfortune to be sent from Earth to investigate. Because when his ship came close to Tschai, it was torpedoed-and Adam escaped to the surface with his life and nothing else.On Tschai, a vast, previously unexplored planet, Adam is taken as a slave by... Read more »
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Servants of the Wankh
By: Jack Vance
Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess Ylin Ylan, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe.Monsters of land and sea lay before them, as well as beings both human and alien who might rob, kill, or enslave them. Tschai was a large planet, an ancient planet, where... Read more »
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The Dirdir
By: Jack Vance
Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved either stealing a spaceship or having one built to order-for Tschai was home to several intelligent star-born races, and so they had spaceyards. But Adam Reith's problem was not so simple.He'd already been lucky to escape the Chasch and the Wankh and a dozen different types of humans, and now... Read more »
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The Pnume
By: Jack Vance
Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pnume were an ancient race of the planet Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin. The Pnume were the historians of Tschai, collecting its past with ruthless and scholarly dedication. Surface dwellers never saw the Pnume-if they were lucky. Adam Reith was not so fortunate. The Pnume... Read more »
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Planet of Adventure
By: Jack Vance
Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
Length: 23 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited-not only by warring alien cultures but by human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history. Reith must find a way off the planet to warn Earth of Tschai's deadly existence.Against a backdrop of baroque cities... Read more »
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