Author: Bertram Mitford

Published: 1908

Published: 1900

It will be remembered that the arguments in the following pages appeared originally in the columns of Le Siècle, and from the correspondence between M. Yves Guyot and Dr. Kuyper and M. Brunetière (Appendix B), the reader will understand how the publication of Le Siècle articles in pamphlet form arose.

Author: George Manville Fenn

Published: 1890

The earliest European settlers in South Africa were mostly Dutch. They were known as Boers, the Dutch word for farmer. They were doing well, and even though the British had come to rule the country, their comfortable and profitable existence was all that most of them wanted. However, an Irishman of the name of Moriarty thought otherwise, and urged them to rebel against the British, simply because there is a class of Irish people that enjoy fights, and the English are their nearest neighbours, and Ireland was part of Great Britain.

Published: 1902

It may come as a surprise that the creator of Sherlock Holmes wrote a history of the Boer War. The 40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having a popular author wielding a pen in its ranks. The army did accept him as a doctor and Doyle was knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein. Doyle's vivid description of the battles is probably thanks to the eye-witness accounts he got from his patients.

Author: George Manville Fenn

Published: 1901

Published: 1902

The qualities which particularly endeared this brave and justly-famous Boer officer to us were his straightforwardness and unostentatious manner, his truthfulness, and the utter absence of affectation that distinguishes him. I am certain that he has written his simple narrative with candour and impartiality, and I feel equally certain, from what I know of him, that this most popular of our late opponents has reviewed the exciting episodes of the War with an honesty, an intelligence, and a humour which many previous publications on the War have lacked.

Author: C. H. Thomas

Author: Johanna Brandt

Published: 1913

In this remarkable human document is described the perils and hardships connected with the Secret Service of the Boers and the heroism and resource displayed by the men. It throws a light on some little-known incidents of the South African War, and is an extremely dramatic picture of the hopes and fears, the devotion and bitterness, with which some Boer women in Pretoria watched and, so far as they could, took part in the war. The greater part of the narrative comes from a diary kept during the war with unusual fulness and vividness. No fictitious names have been employed, and the experiences of the diarist, as they were recorded from day to day, are correct in every detail.

Author: M. Jacson

Published: 1908

Author: Filson Young

Published: 1900

Author: Louis Creswicke

Published: 1900

In writing this volume my aim has been to present an unvarnished tale of the circumstances--extending over nearly half a century--which have brought about the present crisis in South Africa. Consequently, it has been necessary to collate the opinions of the best authorities on the subject. My acknowledgments are due to the distinguished authors herein quoted for much valuable information, throwing light on the complications that have been accumulating so long, and that owe their origin to political blundering and cosmopolitan scheming rather than to the racial antagonism between Briton and Boer.

Published: 1896

Published: 1900

Author: Cynthia Stockley

Published: 1919

No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley. She is a favored medium through whom the great Dark Continent its tales unfolds.

A strange story is this, of a Karoo farm,--a hedge of Blue Aloes, a cactus of fantastic beauty, which shelters a myriad of creeping things,--a whisper and a summons in the dead of the night,--an odor of death and the old.

There are three other stories in the book, stories throbbing with the sudden, intense passion and the mystic atmosphere of the Veldt.

Blue Aloes
The Leopard
Rosanne Ozanne
April Folly

Author: A. G. Hales

Published: 1901

Author: Arthur Shearly Cripps

Published: 1918

Author: George Manville Fenn

Published: 1895

A most authentic-seeming book about the difficulties a pair of young Britons faced when they go to South Africa to set up an ostrich farm on the dry and empty veldt.

Author: W.E. Sellers

Published: 1900

Author: G.W. Steevens

Published: 1900

Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Published: 1896

Published: 1897

Author: W. Basil Worsfold

Published: 1906

Published: 1857

Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.

Author: J.D. Kestell

Published: 1912

Author: William Charles Henry Scully

Published: 1913

Having lived for upwards of forty-five years in South Africa usually in parts remote from those settled areas which have attained a measure of civilization and having been a wide wanderer in my early days, it has been my fortune to witness many interesting events and to be brought into contact with many strong men. Occasionally, as in the case of the earlier discoveries of gold and diamonds, I have drifted, a pipkin among pots, close to the centre around which the immediate interests of the country seemed to revolve.

Published: 1890

Author: Alfred Thayer Mahan

Published: 1900

Published: 1883

This well-written and provocative book gained recognition as the first realistic description of life in South Africa, and raised significant controversy with its progressive views on marriage and religion.

Author: Olive Schreiner

Published: 1893

Published: 1910

A British novel of the Boer War.

Author: Captain Mayne-Reid

Published: 1856

Author: J.P. Fitzpatrick

Published: 1899

Author: A.C. Ray

Published: 1905

Two nice, clean, stalwart, healthy Canadians journey to South Africa to enlist in active service. On the boat which carries them to their destination is a young English girl, whose home is in Cape Town. She and Harvard Weldon, the bigger, more stalwart, and handsomer of the two Canadians, find no small satisfaction in each other's company on board the boat... In spite of its conventional plot, the vivid descriptions of the battles, the talk of the messrooms, and the kindly spirit which prevails throughout hold a lively interest for the reader.

Published: 1887

An African domestic drama set in Pretoria at the time of the Boer War.

Author: Perceval Gibbon

Published: 1906

In this new volume of tales the author "deals with the back-world of Boer superstition, the kind of story we may believe to be told round winter fires on lonely farms. The Vrouw Grobelaar, the narrator, will capture the affections of every reader with her shrewd common sense, her sharp tongue, and trenchant philosophy of life... The tales themselves range over every variety of subject, from the idyllic to the purely horrible."

Unto the Third Generation -- The Dream-Face -- The Avenger of Blood -- The Hands of the Pitiful Woman -- Piet Naude's Trek -- Like Unto Like -- Counting the Colors -- The King of the Baboons -- Morder Drift -- A Good End -- Vasco's Sweetheart -- The Peruvian -- Tagalash -- The Home Kraal -- The Sacrifice -- The Coward -- Her Own Story

Published: 1918

This story of the amazing adventures which come into the life of a retired diamond merchant, who comes from the mines of South Africa to London, is clever in plot and effective in style. As a writer of detective stories, Mr. Wallace occupies an enviable place. The Man Who Knew shows him at his best.

Author: William Charles Henry Scully

Published: 1895

Author: H.W. Nevinson

Published: 1900

Author: Bertram Mitford

Published: 1894

"Mr. Mitford knows the Zulu well; he paints him here in a tone-picture which is very praiseworthy... The description of 'The Tooth,' a new Tarpeian rock... is almost worthy of Mr. Rider Haggard. For a moment the book has the fascination of 'King Solomon's Mines.'"--Daily Chronicle

Published: 1901

To those in search of a rousing novel, packed tight with adventure of a South African flavour, we can at once point out "The Triumph of Hilary Blachland," which in nine particulars out of ten will undoubtedly satisfy such readers as like their fiction to have as many exciting moments as there are quills upon the porcupine.

Published: 1905

The mystery has to do with the murderous rites of the 'Brotherhood of the Dew,' a superstitious sect of the Zulus on the borders of Natal, who had a horrible way of sacrificing human beings in order to bring rain at times of drought. This is only discovered after the mysterious disappearance of two white settlers, one a man not traced till long after, and the second a woman, rescued in the nick of time. While a love interest runs through the story, the more exciting passages deal with the adventures of the hero of the story and of a blundering ex-soldier who accompanies the former on a trading expedition over the border into Zululand. Many narrow escapes and thrilling adventures, usually caused by the ill-concealed contempt of the ex-soldier for the natives, keep the interest well sustained. The author writes as one who knows his subject and locality; a good book for boys of every size.

Published: 1860

Author: Alfred W. Drayson

Published: 1869

Published: 1887

Major Peterson belonged to the East India service when accepted the offer of his brother to send Julius home for an English education; the lad set sail from Delhi on the "Madagascar," which was wrecked after leaving Calcutta; the few survivors washed ashore were taken captive by the Caffres; excepting Julius they all sink into oblivion, the latter winning favor with the savages, who name him Umkunkinglavu -- "The white chief of the Caffres."

Author: Frederick Sadleir Brereton

Published: 1900

Published: 1906

Harley Greenoak, an experienced, resourceful up-country hunter, undertakes the guidance of a high-spirited, adventure-seeking young Englishman visiting South Africa -- a young man with an irresistible tendency towards getting into scrapes. It is Greenoak's especial business to get him out of them. How this is done, both before and after the outbreak of the Kafir War, will carry the reader through a series of stirring scenes--of fierce fighting and stubborn defence--of timely and well-nigh miraculous rescues--and even one episode of weird mystery; interwoven throughout is a love romance whose heroine is fully up to the sample of Mr. Mitford's many creations in that line.

Published: 1899

"Prester John is a splendid story, not merely compact with thrilling scenes, but distinguished by a fine literary flavour, due partly to the author's style and partly to his ability to describe men who are not mere automatons. Davie Crawfurd, Laputa, Wardlaw, an Aberdeen schoolmaster; Henriques, a dirty Portuguese scoundrel, and others are men of flesh and blood as living and real as the people one meets every day in the street, and a great deal more interesting."--Scotsman.

Published: 1900

Causes of the South African War, 1899-1902

Author: G. A. Henty

Published: 1897

As a rule the minor wars in which this country has been from time to time engaged, have been remarkable both for the admirable way in which they were conducted and for the success that attended them. The two campaigns in South Africa, however, that followed each other with but a brief interval, were notable exceptions. In the Zulu War the blunder, made by the General in command, of dividing his army and marching away with the greater portion without troubling himself to keep up communication with the force left behind, brought about a serious disaster at Isandula. In the Boer War we also suffered two defeats,—one at Laing’s Neck, the other at Majuba Hill,—and when at last a British force was assembled capable of retrieving these misfortunes, the English government decided not to fight, but to leave the Boers in possession of the Transvaal. This unfortunate surrender has, assuredly, brought about the troubled state of things now existing in South Africa.

Published: 1904

Published: 1900

A narrative and diary of personal experiences with the C.I.V. Battery (honourable artillery company) in South Africa.

Author: Captain Mayne Reid

Published: 1907