The Covenant (Vol. 1 of #2)

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Synopsis
(From the book jacket) The story begins 15,000 years ago with a clan of small brown people-the San, later called "Bushmen"-who are facing a crisis. A beautiful lake, long the center of their lives, is drying up, and they must move across a hostile African desert to seek better conditions. The hardships overcome by this intrepid band-hunters, wanderers, artists-are minor compared with what will eventually confront those who come after them. Some of these are next shown in the 15th century toiling in the gold mines that enrich the black empire of Zimbabwe. They are overseen by Nxumalo, who has achieved power and fortune in that great city and who is an ancestor of one of the three principal families in this book. The first European settlement in South Africa is a Dutch outpost established in 1652 at the Cape of Good Hope-a dangerous headland usually by-passed by ships sailing to and from the Far East. What begins there, several decades after the first English colonies in North America, parallels in many ways the growth of the United States, but with significant differences. An original settler at the Cape is Willem van Doorn. Born in Java to a prominent Dutch family, he is a member of the first of the ten generations of Van Doorns who dominate this novel and an early contributor to the racial mixture that will later be despised and repressed as the Coloureds. He is a pioneer in the eastward movement which spreads his family and their countrymen across the southern tip of the continent to the Indian Ocean, confident in the belief that God has elected them to take this land by any means and hold it against any opposition.
Copyright:
1980

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
527 Pages
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
James A. Michener
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Deborah Murray
Proofread By:
Bob Wiley
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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