The Claim Jump

About the Book

The Claim Jump was originally published in South Africa in 1995. The publishing house that undertook the work was embryonic at the time. The editor then moved to Ireland and for a long time circumstance mitigated against a reprint.

Convinced that it should be published internationally he began the hard slog of looking for an established house that might reprint the work.

It was during this process that he came across on demand publishing and considering cost and other factors, the best way forward. The work is thus republished here to bring it toÊa wider audience. The story of a modern day prospector out panning one weekend, discovers river gold. He stakes out a claim, and almost as if called, trouble approaches. Things suppressed in normal life, greed, lust, ownership, break to the surface.ÊIssues of modern day life that touch us all. What happens when people, when whole cultures lay claim to the same thing.

About the Author

Charles Bentley was born in England, but raised and educated in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). Schooled at Peterhouse, he was drawn inexorably into the bush war that raged at the time.

Eventually leaving Zimbabwe I traveled extensively yet always kept returning. Estranged in his own land, he now has a base in South Africa.