This is a true, stirring story of adventure, love and tragedy, recounted mainly through the exquisite letters written by Samuel Orchard. The first part of the book depends on the letters written by Trooper Orchard of the Imperial Yeomanry to his family in Cornwall, during the Second Boer War. Following his service in the war, he returned to Southern Africa and fell in love with Anna Retief, a woman of Boer descent. Their love affair was beset with obstacles arising primarily from the ill-feeling of the Boers towards the English. After four years of struggle Samuel and Anna were finally married in Livingstone, North-Western Rhodesia. His love letters to Anna tell the story. But their happy marriage was cruelly cut short by a terrible tragedy.
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