263pp., map, paperback, Reach Publishers, Wandsbeck, 2023
ISBN: 9781776365005
Historical novel about two settler families living in an isolated, sugar-growing community on the Natal South Coast in the mid- to late 1800s. The first of two novels, the second of which is Challenges in a Colonial County
Historian Duncan Du Bois is the author of Sugar and Settlers: A history of the Natal South Coast, 1850-1010 and Labourer or Settler? Colonial Natal’s Indian dilemma.