John Niel, a young Englishman, comes to the ostrich farm of old Silas Croft at Mooifontein, where Croft’s two nieces live: gentle, lovely Bessie and her strange, intense sister Jess. The ambitious Boer Frank Muller wants Bessie for himself, and when the Transvaal rises against British rule the household is torn apart, with Jess shut up in besieged Pretoria.
A tense South African romance drawn from Haggard’s own years in the Transvaal; its view of the Boers is that of an Englishman of 1887. Download the free EPUB.