Born and bred into the tawny magnificence of Africa, Saul would fight to save the vanishing world of his inheritance. Home of the wild elephants and the fiercely independent families of woodcutters, the Knysna Forest is under threat from the exploitative greed of the timber merchants, and the ruthless plundering of the ivory hunters. Saul Barnard is a man with a self imposed mission u to halt the wanton destruction. For years he has protected the forest from intruders, finding a strange mystical kinship with the spirit of ...
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Born and bred into the tawny magnificence of Africa, Saul would fight to save the vanishing world of his inheritance. Home of the wild elephants and the fiercely independent families of woodcutters, the Knysna Forest is under threat from the exploitative greed of the timber merchants, and the ruthless plundering of the ivory hunters. Saul Barnard is a man with a self imposed mission u to halt the wanton destruction. For years he has protected the forest from intruders, finding a strange mystical kinship with the spirit of Old Foot, the indomitable and majestic elephant. Then when the word goes round that Old Foot is on the rampage, Saul is propelled towards a terrible confrontation that will change his future, for ever.
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New York. 1984. September 1984. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394539117. 307 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Daniel Maffia. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman. keywords: Literature South Africa. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Knysna Forest: a primal world of strange beauty and hidden dangers, of secrets shrouded beneath the canopy of towering trees, where, for centuries, the only sounds were the songs of birds and the trumpeting of the magnificent elephants. until man arrived to claim for himself the rare wood of the trees, and the rarer ivory of the elephants' tusks. This is the setting of Circles In A Forest-an emotionally charged novel that marks the debut here of an extraordinary South African novelist; the story of the coming of age of a young man in the late 1880s who is torn between his love and profound respect for the forest in which he was raised, and the demands on him of both his family and his rapidly-frighteningly-changing world. Saul Barnard has grown up in Knysna, the son of a woodcutter, a descendant of the first Dutch colonists in South Africa to enter the great forest and make it their home, their livelihood, their sanctuary; and his knowledge of the forest is that which has been passed from father to son for decades. But as his childhood gives way to the first moments of manhood, he discovers that his understanding of the forest is moving beyond his father. He has begun to see and despise the devastation man is wreaking on the forest; and he begins to question the life to which he been born, with its stifling insularity and its never-ending round of back-breaking work and meager, unfair compensation. When he defies his father-refusing for the first time to follow orders-he is turned out, compelled to leave the safety and security of his family and Knysna, compelled to thrust himself into the searing light and harsh realities of the ‘outside. ' Saul's story-his journey in search of his own life-unfolds in two overlapping narratives. The first takes us into his past: to the events that led to the passionate flight between him and his father and his estrangement from his entire family. to the moment he begins to love Kate, a woman who seems as elusive to him as his own happiness. to the years he spends wandering away from Knysna, and back again, now fighting the humiliations of his ‘cutter' background, now discovering pride in it, all the while nurturing in himself the determination and self-reliance that must carry him through hardship and despair. The second narrative lies in the present, following Saul deep into Knysna as he tracks an elephant known as Old Foot: the most cunning, the most revered, and the most hated of all the elephants in the forest, with whom Saul (and only Saul) has always had a strange, almost mystic connection-the elephant seeming to follow him, to watch him, to watch over him. Now Old Foot is being hunted by a ruthless ‘outsider, ' and it has fallen to Saul-because Old Foot is, in the language of the native people, his ‘animal-brother'-to circumvent the elephant's ignominious death. For through all the years during which Saul has circled away from and back to the forest, Old Foot has been tracing his own circles in the forest itself, the rituals of his life as sure and steady as have been uncertain and unforeseen. Now their circles intersect again-now the animal's fate, Saul's fate, and the fate of the forest converge in one moment's decision, and one shot from a gun-as the two narratives come together to resolve this deeply moving and powerful story of the complex, often tenuous, yet inescapable relationship between man and nature. Born near Capetown, South Africa, in 1938, Dalene Matthee began her career as a short story writer. Circles In A Forest is her fifth novel. inventory #5569.
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DJ by Sara Eisenman. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. pp. 305. 13413 shelf. Gold-stamped maroon cloth spine w/ mauve bds. No names, clean text. Dust jacket w/ small brown stain verso. South African author's fifth novel.
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