Jack Meredith, idle son of a cynical baronet, is engaged to a society beauty but sets out for West Africa with the big-game hunter Guy Oscard in search of simiacine, a rare plant drug that can cure fever. Their partner Victor Durnovo has his own designs, and the heiress Jocelyn Gordon waits at the coast.
An adventure-romance of the 1890s, rich in its era’s views of empire and race, by the author of The Sowers. Download the free EPUB.