Frank Hargate, a schoolboy more interested in birds’ nests than cricket, is left alone in the world and finds work collecting specimens in West Africa. Lost in the forest and swept into the fighting, he ends up serving with the British expedition against Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti kingdom.
Henty’s adventure is exciting, but its depiction of Africans is among the most openly racist of his books and reflects 1884. Download the free EPUB.