An exciting story on the gold coast of western Africa, a wilderness of unknown mystery steeped in jungle lore and made of superstition. Untamed, uncharted, and forgotten by a world at war. But Philip Baring was about the change that. After spending a year in the United States, he was anxious to return to the gold coast and the land he knew as home; a young man who dared to go into the jungle and learn the secret of the mysterious and sacred talking drum.