The Covenant
Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the...
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Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780449214206 (0449214206)
Publish date: February 1987
Publisher: Ballantine Books (Fawcett)
Pages no: 235
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Epic,
Cultural,
Africa,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern
It took me a long while to get through this book (my edition has 1,235 pages), but it was well worth it.Michener's 1980 novel covers the history of South Africa from prehistoric times up until the late 1970s -- which means that it misses out the Mandela presidency and other events associated with th...
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