Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
No man could protect a woman more jealously than Silas has guarded his beautiful daughter Miriam.
Together they live by cutting wood and gathering honey, alone in a clearing in the green Eden of Africa's magnificent Knysna rain forest. Alone, that is, until the day a frightened, black-eyed group of Italian immigrants arrives, lured there by false official promises of mulberry trees and sheds to house their silkworms. A makeshift camp is set up. Silas is reluctantly drawn in to help. Miriam, meanwhile, has taken to slipping away into the forest, reappearing hours later, blushing with a secret joy...
The Mulberry Forest is a moving adventure of love and dispossession, marvelously recreating the struggles of the early settlers as they carve a life in the wild world of the African forest.
Soft cover, good condition. The book is clean.