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Off to the Wilds, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Hildibrand
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21359]
Language: English
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Off to the Wilds, Being the Adventures of Two Brothers, by George Manville Fenn.
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The setting is the northern part of what is now South Africa, in the middle of the nineteenth century. Mr Rogers is a British settler in South Africa, a "cottage farmer". The earlier Dutch farmers and settlers are called Boers. The two teenage sons, Jack and Dick, have often asked if they could all go out on a trek to visit the northern parts of the country, for a natural history collecting expedition. They had come out to South Africa for the health of Mrs Rogers, but she had died, and of the two boys, Dick was not very strong, while Jack was very robust.
Off they go, together with two Zulu boys who live on their land, the Zulu boys' father, who is a Chieftain whom they nickname "The General", and an Irish cook, who is always getting into trouble in every situation, in a most infuria