[Gutenberg 4074] • Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek
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- Authors
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Publisher
- Aegypan
- Tags
- historical fiction , adventure , classics , 1836-1840 -- fiction , transvaal (south africa) -- fiction , south africa -- history -- great trek
- ISBN
- 9781603122696
- Date
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.24 MB
- Lang
- en
Swallow is a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her life . . . and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm. Swallow grows to love the English boy Ralph Kenzie. He returns her love -- but must face the murderous Swart Piet, who is intent on taking Swallow for himself -- and equally set on bringing war to the region. Torn from Ralph's side, Swallow faces adventures of her own alongside Sihamba, the Kaffir witch-doctoress.
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), author of "King Solomon's Mines, " combines romance and exotic adventure in this novel of the Voortrekkers of 1836.