The first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists' accounts, and poems.
It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia's security forces. Ian Smith's minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way. For these inexperienced eighteen-year-olds, there is nothing to do but go on fighting, and hold the line while the transition happens around them. Dead Leaves is a richly textured memoir in which an ordinary t...
Dan Wylie's Crocodile tracks the 23 recognized crocodilian species across every continent bar Antarctica, and through myths, artworks and literatures around the world.
Over the decades a great deal has been written about Shaka, the most famous--or infamous--of Zulu leaders. "Myth of Iron: Shaka in History" is the first book-length scholarly study of Shaka to be published. It lays out, as far as possible, all the available evidence--mainly hitherto underutilized Zulu oral testimonies, supported by other documentary sources--and decides, item by item, legend by legend, what exactly is known about Shaka's reign...
