Jock of the Bushveld Fitzpatrick Sir Percy
Jock of the Bushveld Fitzpatrick Sir Percy The much-loved classic by Percy Fitzpatrick, available as a limited centenary edition. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written.…
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Jock of the Bushveld Fitzpatrick Sir Percy
The much-loved classic by Percy Fitzpatrick, available as a limited centenary edition. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written. Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories.
Jock's owner was a young transport rider in the rugged and colourful days of the Transvaal gold rush. 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. 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
Jock of the Bushveld