256 pages. The price clipped jacket is shelf stained, chipped at the edges with minor loss to the spine's tail. The body of the book is foxed, else clean, unmarked and solid. "An enthralling journey through the African Bush." The novel's protagonist is "a theosophist and is convinced that he is haunted by the spirit of a man who has been his enemy since the days of the Johannesburg diamond rush. Translated from the French by Reginald Merton)