<p>Tertius de Klerk: Afrikaner, hapless academic and potential has-been. A drunken<br><br>one-night stand with a student, the confrontation, a terrible incident. Tertius must<br><br>flee.<br><br>Like his great-grandfather Basjan before him, Tertius leaves for Patagonia, the<br><br>remote South American region where his forebears started anew after the Anglo-<br><br>Boer War. It's a desperate act, but also an opportunity to seek refuge among longlost<br><br>relatives on the windswept plains of the continent's southernmost tip.<br><br>History repeats itself as his spirited wife Alta sets off after him – just as his<br><br>great-grandmother Salome pursued the wayward Basjan across ocean and desert.<br><br>With a heady mix of adventure and humour, Maya Fowler's novel spans the<br><br>wide Patagonian plains, and transports you to the New World on Spanish soil,<br><br>where the Afrikaans language survives to this day.</p>