At the Fireside
eBook - ePub

At the Fireside

True South African Stories

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

At the Fireside

True South African Stories

About this book

Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled with magnificent stories from southern African. Now, more than ten years later, Roger Webster is back with another, all new volume of fireside tales of people and events that have shaped this remarkable country. The author brings to life anecdotes from the country's past, either forgotten or, perhaps, left untold as a result of political prejudice, These are tales of courage and failure, honour and greed, hope and despair, unexpected and extraordinary achievements but, ultimately, stories of real people.

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Information

Publisher
Jonathan Ball
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781868425693
eBook ISBN
9781868425709
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword
  6. The Second Frontier War, May 1793
  7. Nice Places, Even Nicer People
  8. Road of No Return
  9. Nottingham Road and its Famous Hotel
  10. The Eastern Cape – the Final Demise
  11. The War at Grahamstown
  12. South Africa’s Spanish Lady
  13. The River of Diamonds
  14. The British, Basuto and Moshesh
  15. Mrs Catherine Jardine
  16. The Battle of Hlobane
  17. Forgotten Places in History
  18. The Malmani Gold Rush of 1879
  19. Mary Fitzgerald – a Woman of Purpose
  20. Conrad Frederick Genal
  21. Colourful Characters
  22. The War of Bezuidenhout’s Wagon
  23. Killie Campbell
  24. Early Theatre in Johannesburg
  25. An African Masada
  26. Anyone for Christmas Pudding?
  27. Of Character and Courage – Japie Greyling
  28. Monument to Danie Theron
  29. Diamonds and Blood
  30. The Pride of a Nation
  31. The Bhambatha Rebellion of 1906
  32. Olive Schreiner
  33. South African Coinage
  34. Bondi the Sea Dog
  35. Du Toit’s Kloof Pass
  36. Have We Forgotten Who We Are?
  37. The New Unanswerable Questions
  38. The Cape of Storms, Good Hope or Unknown
  39. The Dividing Up of the Land – Post 1994
  40. The Drums of Africa
  41. The Land is Mine
  42. The Outback
  43. The Last Anglo-Boer War Memorial
  44. The Cutting Edge f History in the Making
  45. The Landscape of War
  46. Calling the Right Shots
  47. Bibliography
  48. Copyright Page