The Day of Chaminuka Author:William Rayner "Go see the old man," James Holt had urged Beth before he died, and now, unbelievably, she found herself doing just that-flying to Rhodesia to find James's father and confront him with the cruelty that, she believed, had been responsible for his son's unhappy and wasted life. — But the man Beth finds is not the man she sought. Proud but not cruel... more », old but not weakened, and with a sense of sad disillusionment lurking behind his tough-minded individuality, Ben Holt overwhelms her first with his brash rudeness and then with his compelling charm.
Equally surprised to find his preconceptions shattered is Moyo, the intellectual African insurgent who is sent to northern Rhodesia on a mission for the Liberation Army and who also comes to Holt's Place to confront the white farmer with past injustices but stays to make a discovery that changes his life.« less