At the Fireside

True South African Stories

Roger Webster

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

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Description
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Foreword
• The Second Frontier War, May 1793
• Nice Places, Even Nicer People
• Road of No Return
• Nottingham Road and its Famous Hotel
• The Eastern Cape – the Final Demise
• The War at Grahamstown
• South Africa’s Spanish Lady
• The River of Diamonds
• The British, Basuto and Moshesh
• Mrs Catherine Jardine
• The Battle of Hlobane
• Forgotten Places in History
• The Malmani Gold Rush of 1879
• Mary Fitzgerald – a Woman of Purpose
• Conrad Frederick Genal
• Colourful Characters
• The War of Bezuidenhout’s Wagon
• Killie Campbell
• Early Theatre in Johannesburg
• An African Masada
• Anyone for Christmas Pudding?
• Of Character and Courage – Japie Greyling
• Monument to Danie Theron
• Diamonds and Blood
• The Pride of a Nation
• The Bhambatha Rebellion of 1906
• Olive Schreiner
• South African Coinage
• Bondi the Sea Dog
• Du Toit’s Kloof Pass
• Have We Forgotten Who We Are?
• The New Unanswerable Questions
• The Cape of Storms, Good Hope or Unknown
• The Dividing Up of the Land – Post 1994
• The Drums of Africa
• The Land is Mine
• The Outback
• The Last Anglo-Boer War Memorial
• The Cutting Edge f History in the Making
• The Landscape of War
• Calling the Right Shots
• Bibliography
• Copyright Page