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The Thirstland
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W. A. de Klerk is a Cape Afrikaner who has already published a useful and sympathetic study of Afrikaner history and culture, The Puritans in Africa. This book is set in the form of a historical novel. Told in the first person by Will Jordan, a Cape Coloured, it recounts the leading role he played in the saga of one of the last of the Afrikaner treks, from the Transvaal to the dry lands of southern Angola and northern Namibia, in search of the final elusive utopia.
W. A. de Klerk is a Cape Afrikaner who has already published a useful and sympathetic study of Afrikaner history and culture, The Puritans in Africa. This book is set in the form of a historical novel. Told in the first person by Will Jordan, a Cape Coloured, it recounts the leading role he played in the saga of one of the last of the Afrikaner treks, from the Transvaal to the dry lands of southern Angola and northern Namibia, in search of the final elusive utopia. De Klerk claims the story is based on the actual events of the trek to 'Upingtonia' in the late 1880s. He would also claim a deeper significance for the story as, in the words of the blurb, an 'allegory of man's search for happiness, suffering pain and anguish in the search...'. These deeper resonances to some extent detract from what is at one level an engaging story set in the well-realized background of the harsh landscape of south-west Africa.....there is much of interest in it, as story, as description and as the attempt by a verligte Afrikaner to establish Afrikaners as a truly African people and to recall them to the desert-formed purities of their trekker origin.
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| Author | W. A. de Klerk |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bok Books International |
| Place | Durban |
| Year | 1988 |
| ISBN | 0947444025 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Condition | Good |
| Comments | Cover corners curling slightly; Shop stamp on first page |
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