King of the Bastards by Sarah Gertrude Millin. First edition 1950. Hardcover with jacket. 339 pp.

Little known today, Coenraad Buys was one of the greatest leaders South Africa has produced, the way he dominated men, his courage and resilience, the way he rose again and again from what appeared irretrievable disaster.

A South African saga created out of fragments of myths and truths belonging to the days before the Great Trek, this is the story of Coenraad Buys, the white man with his harem of native women, the father of the half-breed community in the Northern Transvaal. Coenraad Buys, descendent of French Huguenots, moves like some demigod through the welter of confusion which reigned in South Africa in the latter part of the 18th and early part of the 19th century. 

First published 1950 by William Heinemann, London. Condition: Good. Dust jacket in worn condition with fraying at edges. 

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