Far Enough: A Story of the Great Trek

  • Hardcover
  • New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (c.1935)
By de Kalb, Eugénie
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid book, light shelfwear and minor soiling to bottom edges of covers, very slight bumping at top corners; jacket has shallow ragged chip at base of spine, tiny nick at top of spine, light wear at extremities]. Epic novel set "against the ever shifting background of the Great Boer Trek into the Transvaal," focused on the fortunes of Teda van der Weg, "a character who would have been accepted as an equal by the women of America who carried their gentleness and spiritual greatness across the early American frontier." The American-born author (a graduate of Smith College) spent a great deal of time among the Dutch in South Africa, researching the book. .

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