Wheelworld

"Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvmörk, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. The Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of peasants enslaved by a handful of powerful families. Then disaster. One year the ships do not come; starvation threatens Halvmörk. Jan rallies the people for their own survival, and guides them on a perilous trek across half a planet. Battling heat and savage creatures, earthquakes and volcanoes, fighting the violence and treachery of the Families, Jan leads the people of Wheelworld to their new destiny."--Pg. [4] of cover.