This novel of epic proportions from South Africa, set between 1650 and 1710, covers the first fifty years of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Beautifully rendered, this is a world and a time never before dealt with in fiction-a period when powerful colonizers took over the lands of Hottentot tribes, exposing aborigines for the first time to Western eyes and Western ways. Through the life stories of seven men-all involved with and defined in one way or another by Pieternella, the beautiful daughter of the first ...
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This novel of epic proportions from South Africa, set between 1650 and 1710, covers the first fifty years of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Beautifully rendered, this is a world and a time never before dealt with in fiction-a period when powerful colonizers took over the lands of Hottentot tribes, exposing aborigines for the first time to Western eyes and Western ways. Through the life stories of seven men-all involved with and defined in one way or another by Pieternella, the beautiful daughter of the first mixed marriage of the new colony-we gain an understanding of the vast historical forces at work. Teeming with characters, rich with lived experience, gripping in its unexpected turns, Islands is a story of greed, power, war, courage, and international intrigue, at once a meticulously researched portrait of the age and a great adventure story.
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Good in good dust jacket. Good, Wear to cover, corners bumped, tiny tear at top and bottom of spine, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 758 p.
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Good. RELIABLE library withdrawal in the plastic, protective cover. Stamped at the page edge with a card pocket page on the inside RIPPED out by the library leaving a jagged edge to that page. Light scuff to the plastic cover. This edition remains useful and PRESENTABLE! Super extra clean.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 758 p. Audience: General/trade. A nice, fine copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ. Translated from the Afrikaans; The story of the first fifty years of the Dutch settlement at Cape of Good Hope in the late 17th and early 18th century. 1st U. S. edition. 8vo., 758 pages.,
