Turning Wheels

Stuart Cloete

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Без обложка, посвещение с химикал от 1974 г., леко овехтял външен вид.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Collins
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 1974 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 380
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Исторически романи
Тегло (гр.):: 451
Ширина (мм):: 135
Височина (мм):: 200
Дебелина (мм):: 26
ISBN:: 00022181904

First published 1937 Tenth Impression 1971 Eleventh Impression 1974 * This is a heroic novel on a great canvas: a long, full-blooded and grandly readable tale of the great Boer trek of 1836. The great trek was the outcome of the English decision to free the slaves in the middle of the harvest, which therefore rotted. Roused to fury, the Boers rushed from their homes, and convoy after convoy headed for the north, braving hardship and the hostility of Kaffir and Zulu, to found the Orange Free State and to penetrate even further north into the Transvaal. This is the story of one convoy led by Hendrik van der Berg, and of the lives of its members. It is a tale of violence and passion, rich in human drama and filled with superbly drawn characters. Like Gone with the Wind, which dealt with the American Civil War, Turning Wheels is the very living stuff of history; like it, too, it is not likely to be surpassed or forgotten.