A wreck throws a handful of survivors onto a wild stretch of the African shore, with no tools, no shelter and at first no fire. In chapters such as The Worth of Fire and The Re-Ascent of Man, a rough, capable man and a refined gentleman contend for leadership of the little colony and for the regard of the young woman among them.
A 1908 survival romance in the castaway tradition; its attitudes to class, sex and Africa are very much of its time. Download the free EPUB.