Ej Benting

eBook, ePUB

The Khoi Leopard (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

For most of her young life, the fickleness of fate had been cruel to this American woman. Hilary is an orphaned college graduate who leaves her few friends behind to seek employment in LA. After leaving her first job, she finds a job as a PA to a Hollywood couple. Hilary realizes, even though she had been on a few college dates, she really had become reclusive and very lonely. Her employers, Roger and Liz, recognizing her melancholy, invite her to accompany them on a holiday trip to Cape Town where Lizs parents lives. After enjoying the sights and sounds around Cape Town, the tourists head out into the hauntingly beautiful Karoo where Hilary befriends a vacationing young man who has an interest in the areas Khoisan rock paintings. They spend much time together - sightseeing; exploring caves; kloofing in the mountain streams and socializing with fellow guests on the farm. They meet two secretive Chinese oil men who clearly wished to keep to themselves. During their excursions into the nearby hills and the Karoo veld, Hilary and her friend cross paths with two direct descendants of the Khoisan community that had inhabited the region for many centuries - long before the first Europeans set foot in Southern Africa. Will the American and her new friend be able to handle an ultra-long distance relationship after such a brief holiday romance? Will the dangerous Kowloon based mobsters of the BPC succeed in ending their young lives in order to steal the Khoisans ancestral land? Remember, wherever you find oil fields, greedy predators were always watching and calculating risk versus reward.

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Autor

For more than forty years EJ Benting has travelled extensively across Africa and has worked with many different people from diverse nations and tribes. Readers will be introduced to the first of a series of stories that originate from across Sub-Saharan Africa. Many of the characters are based on real people whose stories were shared during job interviews or around many camp fires in the African veld. The author's love of the unspoiled vast open spaces on the African continent is matched only by his love of Cape Town where he and his ancestors were born and raised. One of his most powerful eye-opening experiences as a teenager was on a trip to the desolate but beautiful Bushmanland. Here he witnessed what a continuous drought could do to human beings. Zero rain and 99% unemployment create the most unimaginable poverty. Yet, EJ experienced a level of amazing generosity amongst the families who had the least to give. Years later, he would understand that you only survived if you enabled others to survive. In our modern world of consumption, riches are the measure of civilized societies. The Bushmanland taught EJ how authentically civilized poor societies can be. His wife, Karin, is still trying after 35 years of marriage to get him to attain all her high values and standards but as we say in Africa .... "Aluta Continua." Benting has experienced many of life's lessons, but the most powerful in his sixty-something years, is the one about 'casting one's bread upon the water.' He's so very proud to see that his two sons had already started to practice this at a young age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse UK
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496994264
• Artikelnr.: 52552782