Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Thomas Baines, Edvard Munch and William Henry Davis. The Transvaal, 1880: two English sisters on a Transvaal farm, an English officer both love, and then the war — the siege of Pretoria, a ride through the enemy lines, and a choice made by the sister nobody expected. Haggard was in the Transvaal for the annexation and the war that followed; he wrote this in 1887, and the Boers in it are neither villains nor comedy, which was rare enough in England to be noticed. Fifty-six plates, from Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck to Harry Payne, carry the weather and the marching columns that press on the sisters' story.