OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET

By C S Lewis

Synopsis

Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the 'silent planet' – Earth – whose tragic story is known throughout the universe... Book 1 of the 'Cosmic Trilogy'.

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Narrator	John Leeson
Length	5hrs
Catalogue No.	1944
Publisher	HarperCollins; 2005

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