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What Happened at Yonder (Paperback)
Loot Price: R552
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What Happened at Yonder (Paperback)
Series: The Kirkwood Trilogy, 2
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Loot Price R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
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The First World War is over, and parts of Natal are thrown open to
white settlers for development; Donald Kirkwood acquires 1500 acres
of raw veld to develop a cotton farm. While camping there with
little more than a tent and a post box made from a biscuit tin, he
builds a house and prepares the land. The farmers must cope with a
fatal cattle disease, catastrophic floods, and locusts. The
settlement is rich with eccentric characters, not least little Mrs
Potgieter, who delivers eggs wrapped in scraps of the Zululand
Times; Eric, an American volunteer ambulance driver on the Western
Front, and his French wife Marie; and Padraig O'Grady, an Irishman
who fought with the Boers, and his wife Sarie, daughter of one of
them. Anyone who loves Africa will love this book, as will anyone
desiring to gain a better un-derstanding of the complicated society
in post-colonial South Africa. This is the second book in the
Kirkwood Trilogy, the first being The Snake in the Signal Box.
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