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“willem anker”

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  • Red Dog

    by Willem Anker ...
    Translated by Michiel Heyns ...
    A blistering, brutal novel of the South African frontier from a major new literary voiceIn the eighteenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Philida

    by André Brink ...
    The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master.Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling Philida on to owners in the harsh country in the north. Unwilling to accept this fate, Philida ... Read more

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  • Big Game Shooting in South Africa Fifty Years Ago

    by W. Cotton Oswell ...
    A thrilling personal account of a hunting trip on the vast plains of South Africa. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oculum

    by Philippa Dowding ...
    Series Book 1 - The Children of Oculum
    ”I'm Mann, just Mann.”The world is slowly recovering after environmental collapse, and the children of the automated, domed city of Oculum have begun to awaken. Miranda, William and the 998 other children wake to tend the fruit trees and gardens behind the thick, opaque walls of their world. Some speak quietly of Outside, which is forbidden. Until William finds a door ...The children outside the ... Read more

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  • From Shikar & Safari - A Big Game Hunting Anthology

    by E. H. Baxter ...
    Originally published in 1931, this book was the first definitive 'Big Game Hunting' anthology to be published in the English language. This is a wonderful collection of the best writings by the best hunters: Selous - Neumann - Percival - Snaffle - Pollock - Baillie-Grohman - Sutherland - Patterson and many others, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest ... Read more

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  • Instant In The Wind

    by André Brink ...
    In early 1749 a white woman and a black man are stranded in the wilderness of the South African interior. She is an educated woman, totally helpless in the wilds. He is a runaway slave. They know only each other. At first their relationship is guarded, poisoned by the black and white in them both. But hesitantly there emerges between them a fellowship that engulfs their most private selves, as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Jock of the Bushveld

    by Percy Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    ‘Hunting stories, like traveller’s tales, are proverbially dangerous to reputations, however literally true they may be . . .’ So wrote J Percy FitzPatrick of his perennial best-seller, never out of print in the century since its first publication. Here is the story of the ‘Boy’ who went to seek his fortune and of his bull-terrier, the plucky runt of the litter; of Marokela, the champion Zulu ... Read more

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  • Journey to Horseshoe Bend

    by TGH Strehlow ...
    Journey to Horseshoe Bend was first published in 1969 and has been out of print for almost forty years. An Australian literary classic, it was written by TGH (Ted) Strehlow, author of the monumental Songs of Central Australia. It describes the final days of his father, Pastor Carl Strehlow, head of the Lutheran mission at Hermannsburg, as they travel, with Aboriginal companions, in extreme heat, ... Read more

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  • Amazulu

    by Walton Golightly ...
    1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde gathering below, they know it's a good day for dying… but a better one for killing.At the centre of their formation a tall, broad-shouldered man surveys ... Read more

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  • In the Heart of the Country

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace.As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Tower at the Edge of the World

    by Glyn Jones, William Heinesen ...
    The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. He is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Nordic author of the twentieth century. William Heinesen describes The Tower at the Edge of the World as a poetic mosaic novel about earliest childhood. There is the perspective of both the child and the old man looking ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD