Jess: A Novel of the First Boer War
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Thomas Baines, Edvard Munch and William Henry Davis. The Transvaal, 1880: two English sisters on a Transvaal farm, an English officer both love, and then the war — the siege of Pretoria, a ride through the enemy lines, and a choice made by the sister nobody expected. Haggard was in the Transvaal for the annexation and the war that followed; he wrote this in 1887, and the Boers in it are neither villains nor comedy, which was rare enough in England to be noticed. Fifty-six plates, from Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck to Harry Payne, carry the weather and the marching columns that press on the sisters' story.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Thomas Baines, Edvard Munch and William Henry Davis. The Transvaal, 1880: two English sisters on a Transvaal farm, an English officer both love, and then the war — the siege of Pretoria, a ride through the enemy lines, and a choice made by the ...
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
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