Jock of the Bushveld - Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (1997 HARDCOVER)

Jock of the Bushveld - Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (1997 HARDCOVER)

AD Donker, 1997

270 pages

Hardcover with DJ in great condition!

Hunting stories, like travellers 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 haulier; of Jantje, the Bushman with all his lore; and of pioneer types from previous goldrushes in California and Australia. A tribute to the life of the 1880s in the outposts of the agrarian Transvaal, this complete edition includes for the first time the authors Postscript and The Creed of Jock.