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The Great Trek by Eric A Walker is told with thoroughness and with an eye on the human beings who make up this story. The Great Trek is a journey in South Africa; an exodus in the late 1830's and 40's of Afrikaner sheep and cattle farmers from the frontier districts of the Cape Colony to Natal the Orange Free State and Transvaal. Chapter headings include: The Cape Frontiersmen; The Causes of the Great Trek; Umsilikazi; Piet Retief; Blaauwkrans, Blood River and the Zulu Battle; The Making of the Republic; The Unmaking of a Republic; The Second British Occupation of Natal; The Second Trek and Journey's End. Illustrated with 4 plates and 3 maps.