Jock of the Bushveld: A 100 Year Celebration - Softcover

Fitzpatrick, Percy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0868522376 ISBN 13: 9780868522371

Verlag: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2009

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The much-loved classic by Percy Fitzpatrick, available as a limited centenary edition. Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written. Since its release in 1907 it has remained a firm favourite in South Africa and has been widely read abroad; it has been printed in many languages including Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Xhosa and Zulu. Jock's owner was a young transport rider in the rugged and colourful days of the Transvaal gold rush. Those were the days when big game roamed the land and each sunrise brought a new adventure. Fitzpatrick first told his children about his adventures with his dog at bedtime. It was his close friend Rudyard Kipling who convinced him to collect the stories and record them in a book. The story of the bull terrier who shared his master's life on the veld has been illustrated with lively sketches by Edmund Caldwell. Fitzpatrick searched for a suitable artist to illustrate the book and settled on the talents of Edmund Caldwell, and he went as far as to take Caldwell to South Africa to see the Bushveld to ensure the authenticity of his illustrations.

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Sir James Percy, often known as Percy FitzPatrick, was a South African novelist, politician, mining investor, and pioneer in the fruit industry. He wrote the classic children's tale, Jock of the Bushveld (1907). As a politician, he advocated British imperial interests prior to and during the Anglo-Boer War. FitzPatrick is responsible for establishing the two-minute quiet on Armistice Day. Percy FitzPatrick was born in King William's Town as the eldest son of James Coleman FitzPatrick, a Supreme Court judge in the Cape Colony, and Jenny FitzGerald. Both were originally from Ireland. James Percy FitzPatrick began his education at Downside School near Bath, Somerset, and later attended St. Aidan's College in Grahamstown. Following his father's death in 1880, James Peter FitzPatrick (later self-selected Percy) left college to assist his mother and her family. After a stint as a clerk at Cape Town's Standard Bank, he moved to the Eastern Transvaal goldfields in 1884, where he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist, and ox-wagon transport rider from the former Louren o Marques to Lydenburg and Barberton. He then became the editor of the Gold Fields News in Barberton. Jock of the Bushveld, an account of FitzPatrick's activities at the time, was published in 1907.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Ball Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0868522376
• ISBN 13: 9780868522371
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
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