Harley Greenoak's Charge

A seasoned up-country man agrees to guide a spirited young Englishman from a tense sea crossing into the southern African interior, where a dramatic man-overboard incident gives way to overland trials. The journey moves between vividly rendered shipboard and veldt scenes, river fords, and defiles, and pits the travellers against natural hazards and hostile situations that test endurance, loyalty, and judgment. Character sketches and episodic adventures combine to portray frontier life, its dangers, and the practical resourcefulness required to survive and protect those in one another's charge.