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2 unusual facts about Geoffrey Jenkins


A Twist of Sand

Geoffrey Jenkins initially sold the rights for his 1959 novel to filmmaker Nunnally Johnson at 20th Century Fox.

Potchefstroom

According to the South African writer Geoffrey Jenkins, "Others however, attribute the name as having come from the word 'Potscherf', meaning a shard of a broken pot, due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi River Valley during drought resembling a broken pot".



see also

Eve Palmer

Trees of Southern Africa (1972), with Norah Pitman, illustrated by Rhona Collett, photographs by Geoffrey Jenkins et al (3 vols.; a revised version of the 1961 work Trees of South Africa)