Rite of Passage by Panshin, Alexei - 1969

E-128: Sidgewick & Jackson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, UK. 1968. 254 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, Man lives precariously on a hundred hastily-established colony worlds and in the seven giant Ships that once ferried men to the stars. Mia Havero's Ship is a small closed society. It tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Mia Havero's Trial is fast approaching and in the meantime she must learn not only the skills that will keep her alive but the deeper courage to face herself and her world. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages .