Jock of the Bushveld

Informationen zum Autor J Percy FitzPatrick (1862-1931) was born of Catholic Irish immigrant parents in King William's Town. Married in 1889! he had five children growing up in Johannesburg. At Rudyard Kipling's prompting he wrote out several drafts of his stories of his greenhorn youth of twenty years before under the title The Life! the Man and the Dog. He finalised the work and by 1906 he was able to sponsor the British artist Edmund Caldwell to gather material to illustrate the typescript of what became known as Jock of the Bushveld. Klappentext A tribute to the life of 1880s in the outposts of the agrarian Transvaal. Zusammenfassung A tribute to the life of 1880s in the outposts of the agrarian Transvaal.

Product details

• Authors: J. Percy Fitzpatrick, Percy Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.09.2007
• EAN: 9780143185505
• ISBN: 978-0-14-318550-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature