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The Fiercest Heart by Stuart Cloete
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Binding: Hardcover
The Riverside Press
First Printing 1960
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 60-8762
Pages: 435
Ex Library
Item Condition: This book has some wear. There is NO dust jacket, but the inside flaps of the missing dust jacket are glued to the inside front and back covers. There has been some glue repair. This book was a library book and has cardholder, stamp, and reference sticker.
"This novel tells the story of the great Boer trek of the 1830's in which ten thousand Boers -- men, women, and children -- left the security of the Cape Colony and drove themselves like a spear into the emptiness of Africa, living in their tented wagons, eating the game they shot, marking with the graves of their dead the outspans where they rested, the road with the bleached bones of their livestock. They made history. For this was the first penetration of the interior of Africa by white men accompanied by their families, their menservants and maidservants, their flocks and herds, their household goods and tools.
It was not only people who were moving into Africa. Time was moving in. This was not a journey. It was a trek from the past into the future. It was a search for new homes -- new lands -- a new life. Progress could come only with the plow, and the plow with the gun, the ox, and the horse.
Once launched into this vast sea of grass and hills, of mountains and rivers, these wagons did not turn back. They would arrive at their destination, at this time unknown, or die on the road.
Their search was for freedom -- freedom from the British who now ruled the Cape, freedom from all law other than the laws of God. Living isolated pastoral lives, these men where not as others but a people apart. The bearded patriarchs, young farmers, women, boys, girls, and children were all imbued with the same idea, all supported by the same fiery desire for untrammeled freedom, for the 'good life.' All demanded more space and a greater silence in which to listen to the voice of the Lord their God.
Every man's hand held a gun, every wagon a great Bible -- God's word, by whose laws alone the Boers lived. A strange and dedicated nation where these voortrekkers, the trail breakers, those who went in front, and had the boldest and the fiercest hearts."
Binding: Hardcover
The Riverside Press
First Printing 1960
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 60-8762
Pages: 435
Ex Library
Item Condition: This book has some wear. There is NO dust jacket, but the inside flaps of the missing dust jacket are glued to the inside front and back covers. There has been some glue repair. This book was a library book and has cardholder, stamp, and reference sticker.
"This novel tells the story of the great Boer trek of the 1830's in which ten thousand Boers -- men, women, and children -- left the security of the Cape Colony and drove themselves like a spear into the emptiness of Africa, living in their tented wagons, eating the game they shot, marking with the graves of their dead the outspans where they rested, the road with the bleached bones of their livestock. They made history. For this was the first penetration of the interior of Africa by white men accompanied by their families, their menservants and maidservants, their flocks and herds, their household goods and tools.
It was not only people who were moving into Africa. Time was moving in. This was not a journey. It was a trek from the past into the future. It was a search for new homes -- new lands -- a new life. Progress could come only with the plow, and the plow with the gun, the ox, and the horse.
Once launched into this vast sea of grass and hills, of mountains and rivers, these wagons did not turn back. They would arrive at their destination, at this time unknown, or die on the road.
Their search was for freedom -- freedom from the British who now ruled the Cape, freedom from all law other than the laws of God. Living isolated pastoral lives, these men where not as others but a people apart. The bearded patriarchs, young farmers, women, boys, girls, and children were all imbued with the same idea, all supported by the same fiery desire for untrammeled freedom, for the 'good life.' All demanded more space and a greater silence in which to listen to the voice of the Lord their God.
Every man's hand held a gun, every wagon a great Bible -- God's word, by whose laws alone the Boers lived. A strange and dedicated nation where these voortrekkers, the trail breakers, those who went in front, and had the boldest and the fiercest hearts."
