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At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally.
Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. This is his story; the story of his country, and of our blood-soaked history.
- ISBN10 1782274227
- ISBN13 9781782274223
- Publish Date 6 June 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 April 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pushkin Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English