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Synopsis
‘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’.
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About the Author
J Percy FitzPatrick (1862-1931) was born of Catholic Irish immigrant parents in King William’s Town. Married in 1889, he had five children growing up in Johannesburg. At Rudyard Kipling’s prompting he wrote out several drafts of his stories of his greenhorn youth of twenty years before under the title The Life, the Man and the Dog. He finalised the work and by 1906 he was able to sponsor the British artist Edmund Caldwell to gather material to illustrate the typescript of what became known as Jock of the Bushveld.
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- PublisherViking UK
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0670806935
- ISBN 13 9780670806935
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages1
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket. First published 1907. This is an abridged version of the usual Empire tub-thumping adventure story for Edwardian public schoolboys written by a white adventurer. Now, of course, the subject of numerous sociology and cultural history Ph.Ds (I may be making that bit up!). Plenty of illustrations and colour plates. Jock is actually a dog in the story as he accompanies his master on exciting Transvaal Gold Rush and other adventures. 275 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £11.65. Seller Inventory # 985
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