# Earthman’s Burden

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- Authors: [Poul Anderson](https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson), [Gordon R Dickson](https://www.bookquiver.com/gordon-r-dickson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-04-23

## Description

It could almost have been Earth - or so thought Ensign Alexander Braithwaite Jones, who crash-landed on the planet Taka, 500 light-years from the Solar System. Then he met the Hokas, a race of teddy-bear-like aliens, with the astounding ability to transform outdated Earth stories into riotous real life adventures. From the guns and slang of an Old West saloon to a hair-raising drug bust in Victorian England led to the by a button-nosed, pipe-puffing Hokan Sherlock Holmes, the Hokas demand that Alex Jones live it all along with them. Suddenly his ordinary military career is changed into a crazy world of intergalactic adventure, as he tries, without much success, to bring his furry, alien charges along the road to civilization, sanity, and a m ore respectable social rating in the Interbeing League.

## Editions

### Earthman’s Burden

- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7508-216-8
- Published: 2013-04-23
- Language: en_GB