King of Bastards
Author: Sarah Gertrude Millin
Publisher: William Heinemann, London, England
Edition: First, 950
ISBN: Not stated
Language: English
Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Scattered foxing and dustjacket incomplete
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Pages: 339.
Additional Information
Sarah Gertrude Millin has, in this novel, tells the story of the strife among native peoples,- the Zulus, the Hottentots, the invading English and Dutch. The story of the hybrids, descendants of Conrad de Buys, first white man of the Transvaal, and his black women. This is Buys' story:- his youth and the forces that pushed him outside the circle of the whites; his growing family, known as the Bastards; his changing loyalties, now to one native chieftain, now another, whose faith in his leadership was part veneration for his colour, part for the knowledge he could share with them; his link with his own race through the missionary, Dr. van der Kamp; his fiery zeal, changing over to violent distaste. Chiefly Conrad is shown in his amazing maintenance of prestige among those he served as brother-advisor- tutor, aiding them to oppose the encroaching whites. Always he lived with his wagons his castle, his clan, his kingdom. And he became a legend, in his lifetime.
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