The Savage Earth

THE SAVAGE EARTH
was the sun-scorched land of the African veld—violent and cruel to the men and women who lived upon it and who tried to tame it to their own needs.

Katie Van Riebeck was Irish by birth, tempestuous and courageous with a temper to match her flaming hair. After a stormy and passionate courtship she had married Van Riebeck, the Boer Commando leader, but the years of tumult were not yet over. For as the earth of Africa threatened to split open between Boer, and Englishmen, and African tribesmen, so the marriage and love of Katie and Van Riebeck began to smolder into violence once more…