UNDER A RAGING SKY
Daniel Carney
To camp UNDER A RAGING SKY with a wild moon rising - that was Patrick Sillitoe's dream. An orphaned, raw young Englishman, in search of the untamed Africa of the cinema screen and King Solomon's Mines, he found himself trapped as a menial clerk in a huge company in Salisbury - his romantic dream abandoned for love of the beautiful, rich Judith.
But then he met a drunken, wild-looking, raggedly dressed old man who hypnotized Patrick into longing for the touch of gold ... and he followed the old man's lead through the wild veldt to the haunted pools of the Ruenya, the River of Gold.
Through hardship, exhaustion and sickness, their strange hate-love partnership held strong. Patrick became a hardened, lean, obsessive gold-seeker, haunted always by a vision of Judith ... scared that e had lost her forever ... The story of Africa, the story of Rhodesia.
Paperback and hardback version available. Used but in good condition.
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