'The primitive Jadlanders gather for an annual feast to celebrate the beginning of their culture …Zendy is sentenced to death by the most horrendous means imaginable, but he escapes to Crodley, a land where its inhabitants are in 16th century-like evolutionary development. Circumstance forces Zendy to guide an expedition to his homeland but a privateer, Dreggolt, engineers a mutiny to seize the ship and imprison Zendy and his Crodlean friends. Dreggolt’s murderous exploits create fear and turmoil in Zendy’s homeland …Zendy and his friend, Blander, escape Dreggolt but they face certain death at the hands of the Jadland people until a surprising succession of events wins a stay of execution for Zendy and his friend.' (Publication summary)
