Old Abe Pike, a settler on the eastern Cape frontier where the British colonists of 1820 made their homes, spins yarns of poison bark, big shoots, baboons, leopards and whips, alongside animal fables of the jackal, the wren, the hare and the tortoise drawn from local folklore. The colonial vocabulary and racial attitudes are those of 1897.
Humorous frontier storytelling from a South African journalist who grew up in the district he describes. Download the free EPUB.