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Kingdom of a Thousand Days
One of the most extraordinary stories ever to emerge from South Africa’s turbulent past
“I was quickly drawn into the story of this 2nd book in the John Ross Trilogy. Characters and the landscape are beautifully depicted, both the good and the bad, highs and lows.”
Isabella’s World
Who was ‘John Ross’? And why is his name in inverted commas?
On the waterfront of the city of Durban, KwaZulu Natal, stands the bronze statue of a teenage lad. The plaque only tells us his name: JOHN ROSS Barefoot, clad in ragged clothes and carrying long hunting spears, he is framed against the massive curve of the 110 metre...
Where it all began: Fraserburgh
The story of ‘John Ross and me’ started with a tenuous link to the town of Fraserburgh lying out on the exposed north-east ‘shoulder’ of Scotland. It was a place I knew little about, other than it usually had a pretty brisk wind blowing in off the North Sea! At that...
John Ross and Me
If this old saying is even half-true, then in the case of ‘John Ross’ and me, I would be truly honoured to think so. The Sioux, Navajo or Apache ‘medicine men’ were no slouches when it came to understanding that the visible world is not all there is; the unseen is...
