Features Zouga Ballantyne, And Swings From The Diamond Mines To The Zulu Wars, And Its Span Takes All Of The Books 500-plus Pages. It was the epoch of empire, the age of pride and blood and conquest, the time of Rhodes and Jameson striking north from the Cape in search of gold and diamonds, land and glory. Such a man was Zouga Ballantyne whose epic journey from the danger and drudgery of the Kimberley mines to the rich grasslands below the Zambezi follows a bloodstained road where the death of a king and the destruction of a warrior nation are the price of empire.One Of The Author"s Best, First Edition, Dust Jacket Has Small Crinkle Otherwise Very Fine.