Gallows Gecko Deneys Reitz ISBN 9780620399586

ISBN 9780620399586

by Herman Charles Bosman

These Bosman stories represent a superbly eclectic collection

and ceaseless combat in the fields of France

Gallows Gecko Deneys Reitz ISBN 9780620399586Slow, calm and meandering, like the Olifants River, this is an absorbing account of nineteenth century farm life in 'the valley', extending to the local village of Clanwilliam, the mission station of Wupperthal, the majestic Cederberg mountains and the capital city of Cape Town. Bearing in mind that his grandfather founded the Rhenish mission station at Wupperthal in 1829, and that his father became the dominee in Clanwilliam in 1884 when he was three