The Pagan Land

by Thomas Marriott

South Africa, 1830. To the coastal settler on the Cape, the land across the Orange River was an unexplored wilderness where drought, disease and hostile tribes preyed on the innocent. But into that pagan land, the Boers trekked with their wagons, their families and their livestock. Some for religious freedom, others to escape British rule, many more for the love of new frontiers. And awaiting them was the King of the Matabele Nation, the Great Bull Elephant - waiting with a thousand impi to crush the interlopers in one great onslaught. . .

415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 12, 1982

Reviews

[Kyle]

I was thinking about my week long stay in jail last summer, and the profound feeling of anxiety and helplessness that this book only served to compound. If you can believe it, it actually made my time in jail worse. I would love if at least one other person had read this book, I'm curious to know if it is as horrible as I remember it. Maybe it's a magnificent masterwork and I'm just too dumb to know it. HAHA. Ha.