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Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.

Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this audiobook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Learn the heartbeat of history in the words of the people that lived and moved it. Also available as audiobooks via Bandcamp. Check out my website at charlesfeatherstone.uk for content links.