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Blue Horizon
by Wilbur Smith
Book 5 in the Birds of Prey Sequence series.
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The Cape and southern African interior in the 1730s. Jim Courtney helps Louisa Leuven escape after a storm wrecks the prison ship carrying her to the Dutch colony. Colonial officials respond by pursuing both the prisoner and the family that sheltered her. The novel portrays the Dutch Cape as both a commercial settlement and a frontier expanding through coercion, transport and claims to land beyond effective colonial control.
Jim and Louisa flee beyond the settled frontier while the Courtney trading enterprise comes under pressure. Their journey contrasts the wealth of the Cape settlement with the hazards and competing communities of the interior. Jim and Louisa’s flight brings them into communities that expose the limits of European authority and the human cost of turning the interior into a route for family enterprise.
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