The covenant volume 1 Author:James A. Michener Book Club Edition — "The main setting of this extraordinary novel is the stunning landscape of South Africa, but vivid episodes also take place in Indonesia, France, Holland and England. The dramatic presentation fo actual and fictional characters in a background of historical events is a narrative technique of which Mr. Michener has long been t... more »he acknowledged master. The story begins 15,000 years ago with a clan of small brown people...."
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"Michener takes on South Africa in this work of historical fiction.* Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever. THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal."« less