A story of witches, anarchists, gnostics, indigenous outlaws, bandits, heretics, sunflowers, sailors, lavender, salmon, longshoremen, bank robbers, dynamiters, country farmers, alchemists, crimps, pimps, brothels, oceans, alembics, maroon colonies, mad scientists, artists, boats, depraved capitalists, grapes, cooks, vigilantes, teamsters, horses, libraries, traitors to the nation, hobos, miners, dancing, guerrilla leaders, mountains, religious movements, crumbling empires, nihilists, wagons, armed uprisings, wine, revolutionaries, peasants, military defectors, books, and the wireless transmission of electric energy.