Wild Dog Running — Alan Scholefield

'...a well-paced, suspenseful story of people seeking to make tenderness real in hostile surroundings.' - BOOK WORLD. The English men and women who settled South Africa in the 1820s yearned for a new life free of poverty and despair - but what they found was a barren, cruel, violent frontier where, if starvation or murder didn't kill you, the vicious roving packs of wild dogs would! This is a story of the new settlers, dropped down into a strange land one hundred miles from a dangerous sea-coast with no good harbors, and six hundred miles from a city where they might be able to sell their crops.