
In February 2108 the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war but the blight of radioactivity & disease still gnaws away at the survivors The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet Ape & Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity told with all his knowledge & imaginative genius