Erewhon: Samuel ButlerBook I of Erewhon. After a series of near mishaps, Biggs, a traveler, crosses a mountain range and stumbles into a fantastic land utterly unknown to him only to be jailed: for in this odd place being penniless is tantamount to criminality. Here, criminals are treated as sick people, sick people are treated as criminals and machines are outlawed. Slowly learning the language and gaining the confidence of his hosts, he comes to know their strange ways