What Happened at Yonder
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 Ir…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5272-8826-3
- EAN: 9781527288263
- Produktnummer: 36894828
- Verlag: Fish Eagle Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.8 cm 366 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 366
Über den Autor
William Paterson, a journalist and author, was born of Scottish-Cornish parentage in Durban and grew up with his sister in an old colonial hilltop house, surrounded by indigenous bush, with views of the Umgeni River and the Indian Ocean. He was educated at Michaelhouse, then the Durban School of Art in Natal and the University of Westminster, London. Upon his return to South Africa he spent most of his working life in the media. He is now settled with his Irish wife Patricia in Co.Wexford, Ireland, where he continues to write..
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