Word: veldt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ponjola", Cynthia Stockley has given us a very real and vivid picture of South Africa--its life, and its people. Her intimate knowledge of the locality and her undeniable powers of description have united to make the veldt of Rhodesia live before our eyes. We can see the drab, ramsrackle villages; the deserted mines; the winding, dusty roads. We begin to understand the peculiar fascination which lies in the broad, barren stretches of desert country--a fascination which grips all who make their dwelling there...