TY - BOOK AU - Anker, Willem. TI - Red dog SN - 9781782274230 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - NB Publisher KW - Historical Adult fiction N2 - In the eighteenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally. Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling ER -