Word: veldts
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...knickerbockers, was on the way to seeing purple elephants. So she rescued him, after many struggles and an incidental murder-her sex was finally discovered and the mystery of her past cleared up satisfactorily -and she and Druro, presumably, settled happily down to life on the veldt together. A frankly melodramatic story, cleanly and competently written, with none of the laborious " ashes of passion " touch one has met in some novels dealing with the same locale...
...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...
...which they live. They are a group of outcast English men and women; a hard drinking, excitement seeking lot; each of whom is hoping that some day he may dig a golden fortune from the soil. They represent a wide variety of types, and yet on them all the veldt has its spell, and instead of being normal energetic human beings, they are lethargic lovable neerdowell...