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This would be great news IF the publisher got copies into the bookshops.
I have visited all the bookshops in this part of the country and have yet to find a copy ? No idea what the hold up is -- ... |
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Here is the official notification of the launch of Jeff Guy's new book
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/Event?I'd=865 View / Download the jpeg image ( Invitation ) Hope to be there. |
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Scott came into camp to report during the first alarm. Who knows where he was sent back to. The obvious inference from the words you cite is that he had been face to face with Pulleine at some point ... |
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No problem
Just the excitement running away with me Will send you the material under separate cover. You may then have the pleasure of sifting the wheat from the chaff. and Deciding what to put i ... |
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Peter , Ron -- has anyone had a look at the Newmarch file at KC ?
Yes we have looked at NATAL newspapers -- what about others ? I have been sent some VERY interesting information Just waiting f ... |
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This weekend I was chatting to a registered land surveyor who is President of SAGI ( South African Geomatics Institute )
http://www.sagi.co.za His family hails from Greytown and he was telling ... |
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There are other versions of these maps, which I have not seen, in the archives of the Charles Close Society at the Library of the University of Cambridge, possibly identifying for us which map was ' ... |
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Stephen Coan helpfully tipped me off about this forthcoming work back in March/April. I've been looking forward to it avidly. Guy was originally of the "Shula Marks school" and I think o ... |
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Apologies for thread hi-jack and interruption
I have posted something in the Chit-Chat section ( because you need to be a member and logged in to see it ! ) Could change everything |
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Hi Chris, I think you might have in mind an illustration by Adam Hook. It is much as you describe and appears in Ian Knight's 'Isandlwana 1879' for Osprey's Campaign Series. You should be able to ... |
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Mel, 850 yards is the approximate distance that the Basutos fired on the uMcityu, not vice verse. Peter Morning Peter , I can remember seeing some sort of a print illustrating Raw ? ( some ... |
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Chris, Many thanks for the heads up. Can not find on the 'Net. Do you have a release date? AMB Has been released already by UKZN Press Have a look on their website Not sure about other plac ... |
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New book by Jeff Guy printed by UKZN Press
Seeing as Shepstone ( and family ) , Colenso (and family) were so central to the wider events of the AZW this book makes interesting reading ( although ... |
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Chris On the other hand, if drawing attention to their very existence and exact location were to herald a new chapter of desecration and robbery, perhaps we should content ourselves with Mitford's ... |
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"Three quarters of a mile from the camp"? Presumably about three quarters of a mile from the front line or outer defences. Down the slope, as in Mitford's quote, but it would be helpful ... |
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