H. Rider Haggard · 1912 · overland
H. Rider Haggard's 1912 Allan Quatermain novel. The young Allan loves the Boer girl Marie on the Cape frontier, and follows her family on the Great Trek into the perilous interior - to Delagoa Bay and the kraal of the Zulu king Dingaan at uMgungundlovu - through massacre and war in the founding days of Natal.
- 1Cape Frontier
The eastern Cape of Allan's boyhood, where he meets and loves Marie Marais among the frontier Boers.
- 2Delagoa Bay
The fever-stricken coast to which Marais leads his trek, and where Allan comes to the survivors' rescue.
- 3uMgungundlovu
Dingaan's royal kraal, scene of the massacre of Retief's Boers and Allan's desperate part in it.