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The White Kudu is the story of a legend which holds Abelshoop, a town in the Northern Cape of South africa in its thrall. When Joshua Hunter, a young English geologist arrives there in the late 1990's, he is immediately drawn, against his modern scientific convictions, into the compelling myth of a kudu yearling's impossible love for a star maiden. The native inhabitants welcome him as the prophesied stranger, who heralds the return of the white kudu, bringing an end to drought and hardship. The white farmers, on the other hand, see in him a threat, especially as his predecessor wreaked havoc in the community with a scandalous and tragiec affair. When his promising project is held up by the discovery of an ancient burial site, the situation is further complicated by the arrival of that predecessor's archaeologist daughter...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1578218 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-09
• Released on: 2009-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

About the Author
Born in 1967 in Northern Cape of South Africa, English teacher Gisela Hoyle grew up on a cattle and game farm there. Thus began an interest in the relationship between people and the patch of earth they inhabit, which plays such an important part in The White Kudu. Interest in writing was sparked as an adult when Gisela gave a class of 17 year olds a sonnet assignment and they challenged her to write one too. In a long and varied teachng career she has aslo found that getting to know people invariably means gettting to know their stories, which is always fascinating, often moving and a profound gift to be given by others.