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The game ranger, the knife, the lion and the sheep: 20 tales about curious characters from Southern Africa

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The game ranger, the knife, the lion and the sheep: 20 tales about curious characters from Southern Africa - Bristow, David
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David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and very past. There is Krotoa, the Khoi maiden who is found working in the Van Riebeeck household as both servant and interpreter, who became the concubine of Danish surgeon Pieter Van Meerhoff and later his wife. Mevrou Maria Mouton, who preferred to socialize with the slaves than her husband on their farm in the Swartland, and conspired to murder him. And the giant Trekboer Coenraad de Buys-rebel, renegade, a man ...

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The game ranger, the knife, the lion and the sheep: 20 tales about curious characters from Southern Africa 2018, Jacana Media, Johannesburg

ISBN-13: 9781431427024

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