Adrift on the Open Veld
Deneys Reitz
‘Reitz had the uncanny knack of living through the war as though leafing through the pages of an adventure story.’
THOMAS PAKENHAM , author of The Boer War
Not only is this equally true of the rest of Deneys Reitz’s amazingly eventful life, but -incredibly -he was also a gifted and compelling writer who bequeathed us a timeless heritage in three brilliant books: Commando, Trekking On and No Outspan. Established bestsellers in their own right, these works are now collected as a trilogy under a title taken from Deneys Reitz’s own description of his commando invading the Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer War.
Adrift on the Open Veld, edited and introduced by TS Emslie, captures definitively what Smuts called ‘the wonderful romance of South Africa.’
ISBN: 978-0620-243-803 • 888 pages + 16 picture pages • Trade Paperback • R465 (Vat incl)