Voyage to Venus (Perelandra)

Paperback. English. Publisher: Pan. 1956. In used condition.

Perelandra: Voyage to Venus, is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, set in the Field of Arbol. It was first published in 1943.

The story starts with the philologist Elwin Ransom, some years after his return from Mars at the end of Out of the Silent Planet, receiving a new mission from Oyarsa, the angelic ruler of Mars. After summoning Lewis, the first person narrator, to his country home, Ransom explains to Lewis that he (Ransom) is to travel to Perelandra (Venus), where he is to counter some kind of attack launched by Earth's Black Archon (Satan).