During the Shona rising of 1896, Peter Halket, a young English trooper of the Chartered Company, loses his way while scouting and sits alone by his fire on a kopje. A mysterious stranger joins him, and their night-long conversation lays bare the killings, land theft and forced labour on which Cecil Rhodes’s new colony was built.
A fierce 1897 allegory against imperial violence by the author of The Story of an African Farm. Download the free EPUB.