The start of this book reminds very much of the beginning of an [Indiana Jones] movie mixed with a [[Joseph Conrad]] atmosphere.
I did not know XIXth Century South African literature but this is the tale of a trader and gun runner and his daughter, an accomplished hunter, living in a relatively isolated trade outpost in Zulu country.

Great hunting scenes worthy of [[Hemingway]] and a sense of imminent death and growing threat well brought in throughout the book. I definitely want to read more Bertram Mitford who then lived in England on an Estate with a room full of Kudu horns, Zulu shields and spears. ( )