THE THIRSTLAND

463pp., map on endpapers, ownership inscription on e.p., hardback, d.w., London, 1977

"The primary chronicle of the book is that of the Thirstlanders, who during the eighteen seventies left their well-established homes in the Transvaal to search for their own Utopia - somewhere else in Africa... Intertwined in the strange history of the Thirstlanders in search of their Land of Rest is the personal history of Will Worthington Jordan: the coloured man from the Cape who became guide, counsellor and friend to one of the most fundamentalist of Boer societies of the time" From the jacket.