Marooned within the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith decided to lead an expedition to come back the princess Ylin Ylan, the Rose of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe.

Monsters of land and sea lay down before them, aswell while beings both human being and alien who all might rob, kill, or enslave them. Tschai was a large planet, a historical planet, where four effective alien races struggled for mastery while human beings had been treated as pawns; nothing at all would be easy for Reith on this journey. However the girl’s father was enormously wealthy and her homeland technologically sophisticated.

If Reith was ever to acquire human assist in returning to Globe, where much better than Cath? Only if he could get there …

Servants from the Wankh, complete alone, may be the second volume of Jack port Vance’s masterwork interplanetary saga.

“Unique adventure, dastardly villains, gorgeous women, baroque landscapes, most served up with the inimitable, incomparable Vance style and wit: dazzlingly inventive, utterly delightful, and absolutely, unequivocally essential to any collection.”-Kirkus Testimonials, praise for the series