Description du livre
Austere Dr Allison was a surgeon specialising in the parasitology of the colony planet, Darkover. Antiseptic hospital walls were the limits of his world, and the virgin ranges of the planet and the human clashes of the Terran and Darkovan were abhorrent to him.
Headstrong, impulsive Jason, raised by the semi-human aboriginals, loved Darkover as his only known home. Its forests, its mountains, its varied peoples were his own, and he chafed for freedom from the confines of the Terran trade city.
Now an epidemic ravaged the planet, destroying Terran and Darkovan alike. The cure lay somewhere in those mountains, known to the natives as The Wall Around the World. And the doctor and the adventurer had to cooperate to find that cure.
But it was impossible for them to truly cooperate. For they shared only one body between them . . .