Summary

Some call him Roeloff, others call him Eyes of the Sky. He attempts to bridge the gap between the white settlers of the Cape and the Sonqua people he has grown to love.Set in the late eighteenth century, Eyes of the Sky is a saga about identity, betrayal, forbidden love, and the coming together of diverse cultures vying for the scant resources of an arid land.The novel takes us into the hearts of the settlers who had to be tough to bend the wilderness to their will, and the brown-skinned people who found themselves 'almost pushed off the end of the earth.'