Scion of a wealthy family, the effete Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones has been transformed . . . no thanks to the proper training and education due Boston's finest -- but due to sheer, desperate necessity: for he must survive as a castaway! Surrounded by brutish troglodytes, he discovers resources and str...

Scion of a wealthy family, the effete Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones has been transformed . . . no thanks to the proper training and education due Boston's finest -- but due to sheer, desperate necessity: for he must survive as a castaway! Surrounded by brutish troglodytes, he discovers resources and strengths he never knew he possessed -- as well as love, with the strangely bewitching Nadara. Rising to the leadership of her primitive tribe, he makes plans for a return to civilization . . . a return, he soon learns, fraught with more peril than the jungle!