Word: velde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their shiny shoulders for slaying an eight-foot lion with two express bullets. Last fortnight came a letter from Explorer Carl E. Akeley, with the Eastman party and in charge of collections for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, saying that the Kenya veld, once a hunter's paradise, is now stripped of fauna. "The unhappy remnant . . . now has its ear attuned to the rattle and bang of the motor car, which carries the alleged sportsmen over the veld in the hope of killing the last of a given species." At one water hole...
...Kaoko Veld, on the inaccessible, desert Southwest African coast, Anthropologists C. E. Cadle, Grant H. John and Paul L. Hoefler, financed by Denver business men, found survivors of the Keikum bushmen, "lowest living form of humanity," pigmy creatures, who can communicate among themselves only in tongue-clicks, who have no art left save dances imitating animals, no affairs but hunting food from...
...response to her summons: Elliott is days late in returning. Something has surely happened, probably to the boy. Wracked already, she is bitter with hate for Elliott when he does appear, dry-mouthed, caked with dust, to say he has lost Jackie in the trackless, beast-run hunting veld, lost him completely. There is a nightmare of searching. Mary's baby is born, prematurely but alive, in a desert railway shed. The boy is not found. Back on the farm, Mary's hatred for Elliott shades into insane belief in the boy's return, insanity that rasps into Elliott until...
...Story. Down on the lobe of the great elephant's ear that is Africa lives Mary Adams Glenn, in a farmhouse on the lonely veld below blue mountains. The farm belongs to Brand van Aardt, the slow, dependable lover of her girlhood. She lives there virtually on his charity with the amiable mediocrity whom she married instead of Brand. They have a ten-year-old boy, Jackie, and she is soon to bear again...
...last pretences had been to make Elliott go hunting on the veld every year, as bigger men did. She could then send game to impress her friends. Even with the baby coming she had insisted he leave her to hunt. Elliott's usual hunting partner failing, she let little Jackie...