THE GREAT THIRST - JENNY SEED- historical background South-West Africa 1830's Jonker Afrikaner etc.

In South-West Africa in the 1830's a boy of the Nama tribe vows to avenge his father's death but despite his warrior's heritage cannot kill when the opportunity comes..  Ýou shall walk the road to glory.' To the young Garib these words uttered by an old, blind man, seemed the words of a madman. For what was he but a small boy of the Nama tribe? And later, when his father had been killed by the tall, fierce Cattle People, his tribe depleted and dying of thirst as they fled across the Great Desert, the road to glory seemed but a distant dream. Then Garib met Haramub, the man with the sharp eyes of a leopard, the man known as Jonker Afrikaner. Haramub was small in stature, yet he had power and guns, and soon defeated the ferocious Cattle People. In time he became the most powerful chief in the whole of South West Africa. Garib, through the results of a disastrous defeat, found himself suddenly serving the great Haramub. It was the beginnning of a road to power, to revenge on the man who slew his father - a road that led Garib to a strange kind of glory made dim by a sense of shame.  

Tafelberg First revised SA Edition 1985  Pictorial hardback ISBN 0624021998 good condition, well-binded clean pages.