Romance In Zululand

Matthew Langley, the son of a Yorkshire farming family and R.A.F. Spitfire pilot, had his first glimpse of Natal in 1942 when the troop-ship carrying him to the desert war in North Africa calls at the sea-port city of Durban for a few days to off-load and refuel. He and his friend Robert Hughes are befriended by a Durban family who show them the city and surrounding country-side. He becomes absolutely fascinated with the growing of sugar cane and dreams of one day owning a cane farm of his own. In spite of his severe war injuries he is determined to return to find this farm of his dreams and to work it successfully. In doing so he meets the people of Natal and Zululand who with their warm hospitality and generosity befriend him and help him make his dream a reality.

"Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron of Chelmsford and Major General of Her Majesty's Royal Army, accepts a commission in the Cape Colony after the tragic death of his wife and child. Princess Nkosazane kaMpande, daughter of Zulu King Cetshwayo, flees Ulundi to the Buffalo River rather than endure a forced marriage to her father's half-brother. The pair discover a historic connection on the plains of Africa, much to scandal, disgust and outrage from Cape Town to Ulundi. It's not long before plotters on both sides conspire to usurp their bond." Zululand is a BWWM, historical fiction/romance based in 1880's colonial South Africa.

Introduction : the enigma of Max Gluckman -- Making the very model of a modern liberal -- London calling -- How the guinea pig burnt his own bridge -- Return to Oxford and intellectual ferment -- Landing and living in Livingi -- Mary, Max, and the Mongu masquerade -- Getting to grips with the Lozi -- Running the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute -- The seven year plan -- The African undertow