Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The Great Trek from a Boer woman's side: Suzanne Botmar's daughter loves an English castaway, and the family goes north with the wagons to Natal — to Retief's embassy, Dingaan's kraal, and the massacre at Weenen. Haggard was in the Transvaal for the annexation and heard the Trek from the people who had made it; Swallow is his Boer novel, and the English are not the heroes of it. Fifty-four plates, from Munch's seated figures to Ducros's Maltese grottoes, trace the European eye on land and sea across two centuries of the Trek's world.
The Great Trek from a Boer woman's side: Suzanne Botmar's daughter loves an English castaway, and the family goes north with the wagons to Natal — to Retief's embassy, Dingaan's kraal, and the massacre at Weenen. Haggard was in the Transvaal for the annexation and heard the Trek from the people w...
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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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