Buchan went to South Africa in 1901 as a young member of Lord Milner’s staff, and this 1903 book records what he saw and thought. It sketches the Portuguese, Dutch and Huguenot pioneers and the Great Trek, describes evenings on the high veld, and argues the case for land settlement, native labour policy and British administration in the newly annexed Transvaal.
An early work by a major novelist, frank in the imperial and racial assumptions of 1903. Download the free EPUB.