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Crossing the Buffalo
Author | : Adrian Greaves |
Publsiher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781409125723 |
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A new and complete history of Zululand, and its destruction at the hands of the British in 1879. This book is not only a complete history of the Zulus but also an account of the way the British won absolute rule in South Africa. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Shaka Zulu established a nation in south-east Africa which was to become the most politically sophisticated and militarily powerful black nation in the entire area. Although the Zulus never had any quarrel with their British neighbours, the rulers of the Cape Colony could not conceive of them as anything but a threat. In 1879, under dubious pretences, the British finally crossed the Buffalo River, and embarked on a bloody war that was to rock the very foundations of the British Empire. The story is studded with tales of incredible heroism, drama and atrocity on both sides: the Battle of Isandlwana, where the Zulus inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns; Rorke's Drift, where a handful of British troops beat off thousands of Zulu warriors and won a record 11 VCs; and Ulundi, where the Zulus were finally crushed in a battle that was to herald some of the most shameful episodes in British Colonial history. Comprehensive, vast in scope, and filled with original and up-to-date research, this is a book that is set to replace all standard works on the subject.
Butcher s Crossing
Author | : John Williams |
Publsiher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2011-03-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590174241 |
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Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
Crossing the Buffalo
Author | : Adrian Greaves |
Publsiher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 029784654X |
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This book is not only a complete history of the Zulus but also an account of the way the British won absolute rule in South Africa. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Shaka Zulu established a nation in south-east Africa which was to become the most politically sophisticated and militarily powerful black nation in the entire area. Although the Zulus never had any quarrel with their British neighbours, the rulers of the Cape Colony could not conceive of them as anything but a threat. In 1879, under dubious pretences, the British finally crossed the Buffalo River, and embarked on a bloody war that was to rock the very foundations of the British Empire. The story is studded with tales of incredible heroism, drama and atrocity on both sides: the Battle of Isandlwana, where the Zulus inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns; Rorke's Drift, where a handful of British troops beat off thousands of Zulu warriors and won a record 11 VCs; and Ulundi, where the Zulus were finally crushed in a battle that was to herald some of the most shameful episodes in British Colonial history. Comprehensive, vast in scope, and filled with original and up-to-date research, this is a book that is set to replace all standard works on the subject.
Incident at Buffalo Crossing
Author | : Conley Robert J. |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:809685816 |
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Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo
Author | : Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 2644 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Buffalo (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112062335978 |
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Buffalo Crossing
Author | : Brett Pasco |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0709051956 |
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The Time of the Buffalo
Author | : Tom McHugh |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0803281056 |
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Discusses the natural history of the American buffalo and its crucial role in the life of the Great Plains Indian