Shaka Zulu"The classic of African History -- a biography of Shaka Zulu, founder of the Zulu nation, born leader and brilliant general...E.A. Ritter grew up with the Zulus, earning their respect and accumulating a rich store of material during his long association with them. Shaka's life and deeds had been handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and they are here evoked with a sense of drama and an eye for detail." -- Back cover. |
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Page 133
Meanwhile Shaka and his troops had reached the Ama - Yiwane Neck ( “ esi -
kaleni sama Yiwane ' - a low ridge at the head of the Ama - Yiwane stream , two
or three miles south of the present Ma - Hlabatini Magistracy ) . There word
reached ...
Meanwhile Shaka and his troops had reached the Ama - Yiwane Neck ( “ esi -
kaleni sama Yiwane ' - a low ridge at the head of the Ama - Yiwane stream , two
or three miles south of the present Ma - Hlabatini Magistracy ) . There word
reached ...
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Rank after rank came on , until the head of the column reached the foot of the hill
– seventy - five ranks in a column 200 yards along . Nomahlanjana was using a
battering ram against two lines of Zulus , whom he expected to drive against the ...
Rank after rank came on , until the head of the column reached the foot of the hill
– seventy - five ranks in a column 200 yards along . Nomahlanjana was using a
battering ram against two lines of Zulus , whom he expected to drive against the ...
Page 226
... following one is within reach of him with its trunk . Shaka and his hunters
reached the causeway just ahead of the leading cow and took cover behind the
flanking fence near the the knee and heel wahawk - like axes and inng 226
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... following one is within reach of him with its trunk . Shaka and his hunters
reached the causeway just ahead of the leading cow and took cover behind the
flanking fence near the the knee and heel wahawk - like axes and inng 226
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User Review - nwdavies - LibraryThingA fascinating book about a fascinating man and culture. I was left with the feeling that, had Shaka been living in, say, Europe and been white he would have been heaped with long lasting praise as an ... Read full review
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingOriginally written in 1955, I find this an excellent biography. Shaka began from a very low status position among his people and re-organized them into a very respectable, bronze or early Iron age ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Zululand and the Zulus in the late Eighteenth Century | 15 |
Birth and Exile | 25 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shaka Zulu Penguin Nonfiction Series Penguin books |
| Author | E. A. Ritter |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1978 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 1 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 014004826X, 9780140048261 |
| Length | 411 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General |
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