Waite is an African pioneer and hunter, who later settles to become a prosperous cattle rancher and ‘hard hitting fighter’. He is killed in action during the Zulu War.
Parents: Aidan Courtney
Children:
General Sean Courtney
- Colonel Sir Garrick Courtney VC DSO
''Something always dies when the lion feeds and yet there is meat for those that follow him.' The lion is Sean, hero of this tremendous drama of the men who took possession of South Africa in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.'
'The Sound of Thunder
'The game was war. The prize was a land. The penalty of defeat was death. . .' The Sound of Thunder is an epic of the Anglo-Boer War and the peace which followed.'
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