{"product_id":"book-faq1","title":"Forged On The Frontier (1818-1849)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA wryly humorous telling of the British colonialisation in South Africa, told from the point of view of a not-very-successful family and the child that would become Emperor, thousands of miles away.\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLong before he became Emperor of the United States, Joshua Norton won his place in history as one of the 1820 Settlers, in the British colonialisation of the Cape Colony, in today's South Africa.\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMany think the patron saint of Discordianism a myth, or his life absurdly exaggerated, but they are wrong. Reality is far stranger than fiction could ever be, and Joshua Norton is the absolute proof, a real-life Don Quixote formed in tragedy and triumph, scarred into a delusion of a better world by the violence of this one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis volume covers Joshua's upbringing as an 1820 settler in the newly-formed Albany region, in what would become the Eastern Cape. It brings to life one of history's most turbulent periods, as Dutch, British, Xhosa, Khoi and Fingo all try to build a life on a land riven by constant war.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead on for a tale of heroes and villains, but mostly of people trying to survive where they can when all the odds are stacked against them and great political winds tear through their desperate lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first volume of the definitive history of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. Told with with a wry dramatisation, it contains the most accurate and complete information on Joshua's early life in any book to date.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Findaway World, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49679025307952,"sku":"BDfaq1","price":15.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/232258-faq1-Square.jpg?v=1743485122","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-faq1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}