Pilgrims Rest: An Historical Novel Of A Pioneering Family's Struggle In 1870s South Africa

by Michael Nicholson

Overview

When Mary Llewellyn’s husband is killed in a battle between Welsh and English miners in poverty-stricken Wales, she resolves to forge a new life in the South African sun with her children.

However, after overcoming a dangerous journey beset by snakes, crocodiles and hostile warriors, all is not as they had hoped in the village of Pilgrims Rest. Change is on the move in 1870s South Africa and Mary, Huw, Ianto, William and baby Tom are right in the middle of it.

Battle breaks out first between the Zulus and the English, then the English and the Boers. And as Ianto’s hatred of the people who killed his father causes him to take up arms for the Boers, brother is pitted in battle against brother.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908556387
Publisher:	Apostrophe Books Ltd
Publication date:	01/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	565 KB

About the Author

Michael Nicholson is one of the world’s most travelled and most decorated television foreign correspondents. He has braved 18 war zones over the past 40 years, picking up a host of awards. Michael is a familiar face in Britain’s homes as a former anchor of ITV’s Evening News and a correspondent for long-running current affairs series Tonight. He has won numerous British and international awards for his reports – from Biafra, Cyprus and Vietnam – and has twice been named the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year. For his coverage of the Falklands War he was given the prestigious Richard Dimbleby Award by BAFTA. In 1991, Michael was awarded the OBE for his reporting of the Gulf War. His books include The Partridge Kite, Red Joker, December Ultimatum, Pilgrims Rest, Across the Limpopoand his memoir A Measure of Danger. His book Natasha’s Story, the gripping account of how he bought an orphan from war-torn Bosnia home to the UK, was made into the Hollywood film Welcome to Sarajevo in 1997.

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Since they had sailed from Dartmouth she could not look at the sea and the grey tricks it played. But now, as they rounded the Cape of Good Hope, she felt settled for the first time. She saw the sky and sea were the same blue, joining each other on a cloudless horizon and she gripped the handrail tight with both hands and held her face up to the large evening sun to smell the spray better. It was no hazard now and it did not threaten but tasted sweet on her lips, sweet, when for so many painful weeks it had tasted only of salt and bitter bile. She filled her chest with air and was surprised. They said there was no land for at least a hundred miles and yet the air was heavy with the perfume of flowers.