Description:
Longmans, Green, And Co., 1899 Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Beveled edges. No dust jacket. Black endpapers. Black and white frontispiece and plates. Previous owner bookplate. Book Well kept and carefully stored with slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with the usual signs of wear and/or age.Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), author of "King Solomon's Mines", combines romance and exotic adventure in this novel of the Voortrekkers of 1836: 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… Read More