Book description
Hunting stories, like traveller's tales, are proverbially dangerous to
reputations, however literally true they may be ...' So wrote J Percy
FitzPatrick of his perennial best-seller, never out of print in the
century since its first publication. Here is the story of the 'Boy' who
went to seek his fortune and of his bull-terrier, the plucky runt of the
litter; of Marokela, the champion Zulu haulier; of Jantje, the Bushman
with all his lore; and of pioneer types from previous goldrushes in
California and Australia. A tribute to the life of the 1880s in the
outposts of the agrarian Transvaal, this complete edition includes for
the first time the author's 'Postscript' and 'The Creed of Jock'.
