Title: Long road home
Description: Fiction and adventure.  It is about a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog called "Blits" (meaning lightning flash) and his adventures while on trek with his 'family' of humans.  He gets involved with lions, getting left behind after a leopard attack and many more.  This book is a translation of the orignal Afrikaans version "Blits".  The book is very popular for prescribed at schools and for teen and young adult reading
Subjects: dog, trek, afrikaans, rhodesian, ridgeback, blits
Places: South West Africa, Namibia
Time periods: early 1900