Great Elephant by Alan Scholefield, Hardcover

Dust jacket has wear along edges. Pages are clean. No markings, no tears, no creases, no tanning.

High adventure and the bittersweet story of a young boy growing up are the twin motifs of this stirring novel set in the exotic world of Africa's most magnificent warriors, the Zulus.

In 1817 James Fraser Black, a convict escaping imprisonment, and his family arrive in Zululand. There Robbie Black, a child of five, meets Mgobozi, one of the great Zulu warriors. The Blacks save his life and become the first white family to settle in the dominions ruled by Chaka, known as Great Elephant, a leader of extraordinary cunning and ruthlessness.

As Robbie grows into young manhood he joins in a fierce Zulu war and, in a brilliant scene of terror, almost becomes a victin of Chaka's madness. Finally, there is the deepening conflict between the son and his father, as James Black takes on the primitive ways of the Zulus. The conflict reaches a climax when father and son seek, in their different passions, the love of the same beautiful girl. How the sone eventually saves the father and the adventures they share make up the denouement of this powerful and authentically-drawn novel.