There Is a Green Hill (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Whose skeleton is lying on the hilltop on Dooringrand?
In the nineteenth century, a series of events took place in Port Natal and Zululand, which culminated in the downfall of the powerful Zulu nation. This is the story of three different cultures set...
In the nineteenth century, a series of events took place in Port Natal and Zululand, which culminated in the downfall of the powerful Zulu nation. This is the story of three different cultures set...
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Whose skeleton is lying on the hilltop on Dooringrand?
In the nineteenth century, a series of events took place in Port Natal and Zululand, which culminated in the downfall of the powerful Zulu nation. This is the story of three different cultures set against the turbulent backdrop of the AngloZulu wars. Many questions are asked: Why were more Victoria Crosses awarded in a single encounter than ever before or since for bravery during the defense of Rorkes Drift? Why were the English so totally defeated the day before at Isandlwana? Why did the Zulus attack so unexpectedly? What caused the Boer farmers to align with the British, the very people whose oppressive rule they had escaped to Port Natal to get away from? And who is really the enemy?
Journey with the little cattle boy who befriends a queen as he grows and becomes a warrior. Experience the ritual of the cleansing ceremonies and others that used to take place before battle. Witness his struggle in understanding the morality of warfare and killing.
Experience the brutality and hardships that the Boer pioneers endured that sowed the seeds of the bitterness that gave birth to the hatred and cruel apartheid system of the future.
Colonialism was at its height, and with it came an arrogance that ignored the needs and cultures of the inhabitants of any new acquisition. Learn how this attitude gave Britain one of its biggest and unnecessary defeats. It was also, by contrast, the stage for the most Victoria Crosses awarded for bravery for any single action in Britains military history.
All of this went into the melting pot of the rich tapestry that is the South Africa of today.
In the nineteenth century, a series of events took place in Port Natal and Zululand, which culminated in the downfall of the powerful Zulu nation. This is the story of three different cultures set against the turbulent backdrop of the AngloZulu wars. Many questions are asked: Why were more Victoria Crosses awarded in a single encounter than ever before or since for bravery during the defense of Rorkes Drift? Why were the English so totally defeated the day before at Isandlwana? Why did the Zulus attack so unexpectedly? What caused the Boer farmers to align with the British, the very people whose oppressive rule they had escaped to Port Natal to get away from? And who is really the enemy?
Journey with the little cattle boy who befriends a queen as he grows and becomes a warrior. Experience the ritual of the cleansing ceremonies and others that used to take place before battle. Witness his struggle in understanding the morality of warfare and killing.
Experience the brutality and hardships that the Boer pioneers endured that sowed the seeds of the bitterness that gave birth to the hatred and cruel apartheid system of the future.
Colonialism was at its height, and with it came an arrogance that ignored the needs and cultures of the inhabitants of any new acquisition. Learn how this attitude gave Britain one of its biggest and unnecessary defeats. It was also, by contrast, the stage for the most Victoria Crosses awarded for bravery for any single action in Britains military history.
All of this went into the melting pot of the rich tapestry that is the South Africa of today.
Autoren-Porträt von Jacqui Buckley
Arriving in South Africa at the tender age of just one year, the author has spent her entire life immersed in the unique culture of the country. From the age of three to seven, she was put into a children’s home when her mother contracted tuberculosis and has fond memories of Izaak, the Zulu gardener who for many hours regaled her with tales of the Zulu kingdom and planted the seed that grew into a love for history. After several years of corporate bondage, she finally entered the tourism industry, and this is where she found her true calling. Once having gained a formal qualification from the South African Tourism Board, she started out nurturing young school groups and progressing to the more challenging category of wide-eyed foreign tourists. Shepherding tour groups through the verdant hills of first Kwazulu Natal and then throughout the Eastern and Western Cape, she learned the magic of taking a dusty subject matter and transforming it into an engaging and colorful narrative blended with her inimitable wit and passion. Upon retirement, she finally had the time to pen the tales, infusing it with her oft twisted and wayward thoughts. She currently resides in Sedgefield, South Africa, home to the world’s only Slow Festival and one of the only towns known to be declared a formal tortoise sanctuary. She shares her home with her two dogs, Jorja and Tokolosh, as well as the usual scattering of half-finished oil canvases and partially written manuscripts. She gives thanks daily for her family and their unconditional support in the adventures she has embarked upon during her varied and interesting life. For leisure, she takes to the local trails every morning on her mountain bike armed with her camera to scout for new landscape material to feed the muse of her other passion, painting.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jacqui Buckley
- 2014, 192 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AuthorHouse UK
- ISBN-10: 1496978447
- ISBN-13: 9781496978448
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.05.2014
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