Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Baines and Ivan Aivazovsky. Val grew up in her father's transport wagon on the South African veldt, and neither marria
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Baines and Ivan Aivazovsky. Val grew up in her father's transport wagon on the South African veldt, and neither marriage to a brilliant Irish doctor nor a child can keep her in one place; what she is running from travels with her. Cynthia Stockley wrote from Rhodesia and Cape Town and knew both worlds she describes. The book was a best-seller in 1913 for the frankness of its marriage, and that is still what carries it. Fifty-seven plates from Thomas Baines and Frederic Edwin Church carry the sea weather, Table Bay and distant coasts that shadow Val's wandering.
