153pp., paperback, First Afrikaans Language Edition, Cape Town, 2022
First published in the UK in 1944 as Adventures of a Boer Family. Translated by Marietjie Delport.
Victor Pohl (1886-1970) grew up on a farm in the Free State. This memoir covers the years of the Anglo-Boer War when his older brothers were on commando fighting against the British. Pohl's books include The Dawn and After, Bushveld Adventures, Land of Distant Horizons and Savage Hinterland.