Canvas Under the Sky Rauch Beukes GREAT TREK SIGNED

Canvas Under the Sky

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GREAT TREK SIGNED

A grand tale in the tradition of epic historical narrative

It is 1834.  The Eastern Cape frontier is burning.  Rauch Beukes, a young Boer of seventeen, returns home to find that the marauding Xhosa have invaded from across the Great Fish River.  So begins a tale of violence and warfare, of love and lust across racial divides, all painted against the sweeping backdrop of the Boer migration north into the hinterland that became known as the Great Trek, the result of British duplicity and