Moerbeibos by Dalene Matthee

ISBN: 9780624038917 / 0624038912 - Moerbeibos by Dalene Matthee (Afrikaans Edition). Published by Tafelberg Publishers Ltd, Cape Town, 2000. Softcover. Used, Good condition. 363 pp. (Ex-library copy)

Italian silkworm farmers are imported to establish a silk industry in Gounas forest world, but mulberry trees refuse to grow in the potting clay. In the severe forest winter, the bewildered immigrants are ravaged by rain, fever and misunderstanding, and become increasingly embittered against the government that dropped them off into the wilderness under false pretenses. The man who comes to their aid is a forest man with an unruly daughter and a head full of plans - the headstrong Silas Miggel. He wants to get them on a ship, back to Italy...

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