TROOPER PETER HALKET OF MASHONALAND

64pp., illus., paperback, New Edition, Cape Town, (1897) 2019

Reprint of the allegorical novella by Olive Schreiner about one of Cecil John Rhodes' young troopers lost in Mashonaland and the appearance of a Christ-like figure on a hilltop. The pursuit of small gold mines by Rhodes' British South Africa Company led to a violent expropriation of Mashonaland and Matabeleland.

Includes a new introduction by Matthew Blackman.