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Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek

Swallow is a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her life ... and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm. Swallow grows to love the English boy Ralph Kenzie. He returns her love — but must face the murderous Swart Piet, who is intent on taking Swallow for himself — and equally set on bringing war to the region. Torn from Ralph's side, Swallow faces adventures of her own alongside Sihamba, the Kaffir witch-doctoress.

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), author of "King Solomon's Mines, " combines romance and exotic adventure in this novel of the Voortrekkers of 1836.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 236
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781603122696
  • Genres
  • adventure, classics, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2007