The intimate and personal story behind the man who tried to kill Verwoerd but didn’t succeed.

“The raucous wail of sirens pierced the quiet Saturday afternoon, making me drop my book and rush outside to see what drama was taking place. A fleet of cars, their sirens screaming, roared along Oxford Road two hundred yards from our house. I stood on the lawn wondering what on earth it was because sirens were rarely heard near our home. I went back inside; the commotion was over. But within half an hour our telephone started ringing non-stop . . .”

9 April 1960 was the day that changed Susie Cazenove’s life – the day her father, David Pratt, shot the Prime Minister of South Africa, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd. Verwoerd, commonly known as the architect of apartheid, didn’t die, but Pratt’s family lived with the legacy of his action.

A chance encounter with the late David Rattray of Fugitive’s Drift led Cazenove to revisit the memories of that terrible day. With Rattray’s encouragement she put pen to paper to describe the extraordinary events of that day and its consequences. Part family memoir, part ode to the settlement of Johannesburg, Cazenove skilfully weaves her family history and the mood in South Africa in the 1950s and 60s as a background to what may have led her father, a farmer and gentle man, to commit a treasonous act.

Twenty-four safari guides are profiled by experienced safari travel promoter, Susie Cazenove. She tells us their stories of adventure and dreams – of following their passion into the wild and of making their guests see Africa in a new light. Read of the antics of the guides in the early days of Londolozi, of guests having to cling to trees in the face of charging rhinos, of safaris with Mary Leaky and legends of the Masai warriors. The tales tell of a wilderness under increasing threat and these guides' determination to share the privilege of a truly wild experience with their guests. The stories take the reader from South Africa to Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Namibia in search of legendary safari guides.

Our favorite erotica writer, the real Alex Cazenove, is forced to drastically pull in his horns when a young rocket scientist, Mallory, and the runaway Texan teenagers, Sarah and Cozette, fall on him from out of the beachy California sky. "You call that a plot?" Alex's New York publisher, Grace, bellows. Maybe not, but then the ancient love of his life, Keisha, shows up as a world-class madam with her own fascinating flock. And then the other love of his life, Sarah's Mom Roxie, roars in from Texas to collect her due. All this while Alex is doing his best to talk Mallory's irritated CEO Daddy out of killing her. The fundamental problem: Alex is just a regular guy with a vivid, if degenerate imagination. But the more he tries to explain this to neighbors, lovers, vengeful CEOs, and publishers, the less they understand. After all, he wrote the books, didn't he? But, as the exhausted soul keeps repeating, there's a reason they call it fiction.

Alex Cazenove's past comes back to haunt the seraglio when his longtime friend, the Corsican spy Marco, embroils them in an obscure tussle with the French authorities. Nia might fight off the initial assault, but Tuscany and Italy still leave the clan vulnerable. Not the most comfortable circumstance for a burgeoning proto-family led by a wealthy American expatriate with six demanding mamas and a pair of children on the way. Alex's favorite Swiss bankers, Anastasia and Olivia, finally step in with Lizzie and Suzie to find them an alpine mansion overlooking Lake Lugano in southern Switzerland. Even so, how can Alex be expected to juggle all the issues and personalities flying about his head, when nothing is as it seems, and every one of his lovers sports her own much too subtle agenda? As usual, it looks like Alice either has-or is-the answer, if only she'll put down her Kama Sutra long enough to enlighten Alex's weary soul.

Alex Cazenove is the taxman's best friend. He's making too much money on his oddball investments with nothing to offset them. Nia hardly helps matters by turning around the once failing vineyard business he owns in Tuscany. When Suzie and Marina take charge of organizing his chaotic life, it only gets worse. Finally, the redheaded financial genius Lizzie shows up and prompts Alex, Alice, and the girls to establish a private club in the Hollywood Hills. They can lose millions while supplying enough lovers to keep Alice happy without the risks Suzie foresees in their rampant libidos. What sounds wonderful in theory proves a challenge in practice, when nineteen club members show up with their nineteen complicated personalities. Finally, in desperation, the core seraglio abandons Los Angeles for their Tuscan estate-but not before a wild free-for-all forces all of them to examine their relationships with each other and the rest of the planet.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

Title: A Narrative, in two parts: written in 1812. On a journey mainly through France, Switzerland and Greece in the years 1803-11. By Henry Cazenove. With a map.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; Cazenove, Henry; 1813. 238 p.; 8 . 10105.d.1.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!