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  • The Dead will Arise

    Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle killing 1856-7

    by Jeff Peires ...
    The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle-Killing of 1856-57, which she initiated, is one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood events in South Africa's history. Jeff Peires was the first historian to draw on all available sources, from oral tradition ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mfecane Aftermath

    Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History

    by Carolyn Hamilton, Thomas Dowson, Elizabeth Eldredge, Norman Etherington, Jan-Bart Gewald, Simon Hall, Guy Hartley, Margaret Kinsman, Andrew Manson, John Omer-Cooper0, Neil Parsons1, Jeff Peires2, Christopher Saunders3, Alan Webster4, John Wright5, Dan Wylie6 ...
    The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history.Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this period – the ‘mfecane’- left much of the interior depopulated, thereby justifying white occupation. One ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Neurodivergent

    The PHANTOM Cell Backstories

    by JEFF SCOTT2 ...
    Series Book 1 - PHANTOM Cell
    Matthew was born a prisoner of an extraordinary mind. A brilliant neurodivergent, his personality is made whole by an experimental cure that was as dangerous as it was miraculous. Having since forged a more normal life from a void-less childhood, with a loving wife and a beautiful child. But the fragile peace he has so carefully constructed is about to shatter. The shadows from a life he tried to ... Read more

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    THIRD KINGDOM, THE

    THE FLAWLESS SUM

    by Jean Marie Jeff Dubuisson ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Jean Marie Jeff Dubuisson 1 E, Digital Voice Jean Marie Jeff Dubuisson 2 E, Digital Voice Jean Marie Jeff Dubuisson 3 E, Digital Voice Jean Marie Jeff Dubuisson 4 E, Digital Voice Jean Marie Jeff Dubuisson 5 E ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Third Kingdom Saga

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The First Murderer. The Ultimate Betrayer. The God-Killer. Heaven is under new management.Heaven is not a paradise of clouds and harps. It is a cold, sterile machine. For thousands of years, the Architect has run the universe like a server farm, fueling the engine of creation with the "Red Noise" of human suffering.+1But three men have finally had ... Read more

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    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    During the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this work have appeared, each of which was, I hope, a little more full and accurate than that which preceded it. I may fairly claim, however, that the absolute mistakes made have been few in number, and that I have never had occasion to reverse, and seldom to modify, the judgments which I have formed. In this final edition the early text has ... Read more

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  • Big Game Shooting - The Lion in South Africa

    by F. C. Selous ...
    Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was a British explorer, hunter and conservationist, and is most remembered for his activities in Southeast Africa. Selous explored lesser-known areas, where he recorded ethnographic notes and collected specimens. ‘Big Game Shooting’, published in 1894, is an anecdotal account that chronicles his experiences of hunting the lion in South Africa, and offers a ... Read more

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  • The Boer Wars - A Brief History

    A Brief History, #1

    by Andrew Knight ...
    Series Book 1 - A Brief History
    The Anglo-Boer Wars will introduce you to, one of the Victorian Wars of the British Empire. A bite size comprehensive account of the two Anglo-Boer Wars fought between 1880-1881 and 1899-1902. A fascinating tale of one of the bloodiest and expensive wars for over a century, which pitted the two Boer Republics of South Africa (Orange Free State and The Transvaal) against the might of the British ... Read more

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  • A Rainbow in the Night

    The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa

    by Dominique Lapierre ...
    "South Africa's tragic apartheid history is vividly recounted . . . [Lapierre] is adept at infusing it with drama aplenty." — Los Angeles TimesIn 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Rabble-Rouser for Peace

    The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu

    by John Allen ...
    South African journalist John Allen movingly captures Desmond Tutu’s life in a commanding story that sheds light on the struggles and triumphs leading up to Tutu’s Nobel Prize for his leadership in the resistance against apartheid in South Africa.To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Visions of Freedom

    Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

    by Piero Gleijeses ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa’s last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa ... Read more

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  • Field Gun Jack Versus the Boers

    The Royal Navy in South Africa, 1899–1900

    by Tony Bridgland, Lord Lewin ...
    War broke out in 1899 between the British and South African settlers of Dutch descent, the Boers, or Afrikaners as they are usually called today. Despite previous clashes, the British seriously underestimated their opponents. Although dressed in battered civilian clothes and made up entirely of volunteers, Boer troops were all mounted on horses and had very up-to-date German rifles.An even more ... Read more

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  • The Wrong Race

    In Apartheid-Racist South Africa

    by Azra Daniel Francis ...
    The persistent trauma of extreme, institutionalized racism can be expected to take its toll on anyone. But resilience, instead, is the main theme of Azra Daniel Francis’s latest book, a raw and deeply personal memoir that details his experience growing up in South Africa. Through vignettes of people, places, and institutions that impacted him, Francis’s account details his always being an outsider ... Read more

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