219pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (1907) 2026
ISBN: 9780868522548
Edited edition: Language has been modernised, measurements metricated and glossary expanded.
Based on the experiences of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and his Staffordshire bull terrier, Jock. In the 1880s, when Fitzpatrick worked as an ox-wagon transport rider in the old Transvaal, he rescued a puppy from drowning. The dog became his faithful companion.
South African author, politician and mining financier James Percy Fitzpatrick was born in King William's Town in 1862. He is the author of Through Mashonaland with Pick and Pen; The Outspan: Tales of South Africa and The Transvaal from Within. He died on his Eastern Cape farm in 1931.