Gallows Gecko Deneys Reitz and Adrift on the Open

and Adrift on the Open Veld gives the reader a gripping insight into southern African affairs through the eyes of a remarkable man who ended his career as South African High Commissioner in London

Geen Uitspan is sound evidence of what Smuts said after Reitz’s death in 1944: ‘His loss is a national one and will be mourned all over this country which he knew and loved as no other’

Many are the stories told by the author

history and human nature

Gallows Gecko Deneys Reitz and Adrift on the OpenSlow, calm and meandering, like the Olifants River, this is an absorbing account of nineteenth century farm life in 'the valley', extending to the local village of Clanwilliam, the mission station of Wupperthal, the majestic Cederberg mountains and the capital city of Cape Town. Bearing in mind that his grandfather founded the Rhenish mission station at Wupperthal in 1829, and that his father became the dominee in Clanwilliam in 1884 when he was three