TURNING WHEELS by Stuart Cloete

TURNING WHEELS

by

Stuart Cloete

1974

Collins Clear-Type Press

London

Hard cover

Condition:

Excellent condition, tightly bound. Pages yellowed with time but intact and undamaged. No dust-cover (see picture).

Taken from inside the book:

"This is a heroic novel on a  great canvas: a long, full-blooded and grandly readable tale of the great Boer trek of 1836.

The great trek was the outcome of the English decision to free the slaves in the middle of the harvest, which therefore rotted. Roused to fury, the Boers rushed from their homes, and convoy after convoy headed for the north, braving hardship and hostility to find the Orange Free State and to penetrate even further north into the Transvaal.

This is the story of one convoy led by Hendrik van der Berg, and of the lives of its members. It is a tale of violence and passion, rich in human drama and filled with superbly drawn characters.

Like Gone with the Wind, which dealt with the American Civil War, Turning Wheels is the very living stuff of history,; like it, too, it is not likely to be surpassed or forgotten."