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Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick – Free Ebook
My mother read this to me when we spent a holiday in the Eastern Transvaal now MpumalangaSouth Africa. I’d had the idea it was fiction, but in reading the preface discovered it was book form of stories he’d told numerous times from his experiences – the ol’ “you need to put these together in a book” line.
If you are not a dog owner you will want to be after reading this book. While the story is somewhat disjointed, mostly it is about Jock, his courage and h This was published in and reflects the prevailing opinions and word usage of the times. All of our paper waste is recycled within the UK and turned into corrugated cardboard.
Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but t This particular edition says ” year celebration – “. However, it was only when FitzPatrick had made his fortune, settled down to have a family and become an established and well-respected member of society that he took jpck to paper at the urging of his children and shared these delightful tales with the rest of the world.
A highly enjoyable book, and particularly as a South African, I’m glad to have read it. This wi Jock of the Bushveld is a beautiful story that not many children read and definitely not here in Australia. As lighthearted as FitzPatrick is, this book is very brutal and effortlessly racist.
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There is an interesting Zulu character in the second half of the story. Want to Read saving…. Would it not have been better for him – happier for me?
Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick
FitzPatrick gave Jock to a friend until he had a safer hhe for him to live in the town, where with his deafness, he was unsafe from traffic and people. Of all the bloody stupid things to do! This is a real book about a man and his dog facing real life.
And then there is Jock. Clearly it was written in very different times to today. Jock of the Bushveld is the classic and much-loved story based on the true experiences of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and his Staffordshire bull terrier, Jock. I didn’t know a lot about South Africa when I went into this, but basically they have their own version of the American wild west, with warring natives that may as well exist in a different world from the Europeans who have moved in, wild animals, yhe justice and injusticeetc.
Product details Paperback Publisher: Jock became a loyal friend for all of his days with his master.
Jock of the Bushveld
I enjoyed the story, but the writing took some getting used to and I did struggle with getting into the author’s way of writing. For anyone who has spent time joci the bush – Percy is succour to any hankering your soul may have for the open skies.
They really had a very tough life. I watched both movies – the kid version and the regular version,before I found this ebook was available on amazon.
I had been looking for this “hard-to-come-across-book” for a long time and to my great disappointment the first thing I see as I open it is an editor’s note in which it states that this IS NOT THE ORIGINAL but and edited edition in which “language has been modernised” and all “prejudicial racial references” have been eliminated.
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It shouldn’t have been touched, not even in the least. It is loosely based on the adventures of its author Percy Fitzpatrick as he traveled ox team wagons throughout central South Africa or the Bushveld.
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