Wilbur Smith · 1966 · overland

Wilbur Smith's 1966 Courtney saga. Years after the gold fields, Sean Courtney has built a fortune in the timber and cattle country of Natal - until the Anglo-Boer War sweeps him up once more. From his Ladyburg estate he rides north to the fighting in the Transvaal, and into the bitter guerrilla war of the high veld, where old enmities and new loves alike are put to the fire.

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   Ladyburg

   Rich now from timber and cattle in the green hills of Natal, Sean Courtney has made a life at Ladyburg - but the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War calls him back to the saddle and the gun, and away from all he has built.

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   The Transvaal

   Riding north with the British columns into the Transvaal, Sean is plunged into the great set-piece battles of the war - and into a reckoning with his embittered brother Garrick, whose hatred has festered across the years.

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   The high veld

   As the war grinds on into its guerrilla phase across the high veld, Sean hunts the Boer commandos over the grassland, amid the scorched farms - a bitter campaign that will cost him and those he loves dearly.