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  | | Death and compassion The elephant in Southern African literature (Paperback) by Dan Wylie Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2018 by Wits University Press, South Africa ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-218-7, ISBN: 1-77614-218-7 "O'Connell, Elephants' Secret Sense, 222. Anthony, Elephant Whisperer, 12. Anthony, Elephant Whisperer, 80. Anthony, Elephant Whisperer, 14. The ghostwriting is important here; though presumably Anthony approved Spence's product, ..." |
 | | Crocodile (Animal) by Dan Wylie Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-087-0, ISBN: 1-78023-087-7 "“Tick, tock, tick, tock.” Thanks to Peter Pan, this sound, if heard near water, means run: a hungry crocodile is on its way. J. M. Barrie isn’t fully to blame for spreading the word that crocodiles are our enemies, or at least the enemies of one-handed pirates—innumerable songs, stories, and legends have characterized these reptiles as a symbol of pitiless predation and insatiable appetite. Tracking twenty-three crocodilian species from ..." |
 | | Myth of Iron(1st Edition) Shaka in History by Dan Wylie Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 2008 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1848-2, ISBN: 0-8214-1848-3 "Over the decades a great deal has been written about Shaka, the most famousor infamousof Zulu leaders. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that even the most basic facts about his life are locked in obscurity. His date of birth, what he looked like, and the circumstances of his assassination remain unknown. Meanwhile the public image, sometimes monstrous, sometimes heroic, juggernauts ontruly a myth of iron” that is so intriguin ..." |
 | | Shaka (Pocket History Guides) by Dan Wylie Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2011 by Jacana Media ISBN-13: 978-1-77009-962-3, ISBN: 1-77009-962-X "Informative and portable, this guide offers a brief yet lively introduction to the life and reign of Shaka Zulu, the most influential leader of South Africa’s Zulu Kingdom. As it challenges the previous historiography of the early king, this account reassesses the white resources and delves into a large body of previously-neglected Zulu historical records. Revealing a complex, tough leaderwho was neither illegitimate nor sexually devia ..." |
 | | The Mfecane Aftermath(1st Edition) Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History by Carolyn Hamilton, Thomas N. Hamilton, Thomas Dowson, Elizabeth Eldredge, Norman Etherington, Jan-Bart Gewald, Simon Hall, Guy Hartley, Margaret Kinsman, Andrew Manson, John Omer-Cooper, Neil Parsons, Jeff Peires, Christopher Saunders, Alan Webster, John Wright, Dan Wylie Paperback, 493 Pages, Published 1995 by Wits University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86814-252-1, ISBN: 1-86814-252-3 "Was the mfecane a figment of historians’ imagination as Julian Cobbing contends? How large a responsibility do Shaka and the Zulu people bear for the social turbulence in South-central and South-east Africa in the early decades of the 19th century? These are some of the issues explored in this collection, which is designed as a response to the radical critique of Dr. Cobbing and other scholars. The mfecane, suggests Cobbing, must be see ..." |
 | | No Other World(1st Edition) Essays on the Life-Work of Don MacLennan by Dan Wylie, Craig Mackenzie Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2012 by Print Matters Heritage ISBN-13: 978-0-9870095-2-4, ISBN: 0-9870095-2-4 |
 | | Myth of Iron(Updated) Shaka in History by Dan Wylie Paperback, 635 Pages, Published 2008 by James Currey ISBN-13: 978-0-85255-441-8, ISBN: 0-85255-441-9 "We know very little about Shaka. This statement may come as a surprise, since over the decades we have heard a great deal about this most famous - or infamous - of Zulu leaders. People will be familiar with a cluster of dramatic stories about Shaka, derived from school or university textbooks, museums, the film Zulu, television programmes, or word of mouth. Most of these stories have come to sound so familiar that they generally pass un ..." |
 | | Savage Delight White Myths of Shaka by Dan Wylie Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Kwazulu-Natal Press ISBN-13: 978-0-86980-955-6, ISBN: 0-86980-955-5 "Provides an examination of the social and psychological dimensions of the literary mythology of Shaka, the Zulu founder King, in a genealogy of white writers." |
 | | Death and Compassion The Elephant in Southern African Literature by Dan Wylie Published 2018 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-220-0, ISBN: 1-77614-220-9 "London: Constable, 1896. Bulpin, T.V. The Ivory Trail. ... Capstick, Peter Hathaway. The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson. New York: St ... Carruthers, Jane. 'Romance, Reverence, Research, Rights: Writing about Elephant Hunting and Management in Southern Africa ... Chapman, Michael, ed. The New Century ..." |
 | | Death and Compassion The Elephant in Southern African Literature by Dan Wylie 232 Pages, Published 2018 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-219-4, ISBN: 1-77614-219-5 "It does not, firstly, resolve his responses to real or imagined censure. ... The sportsman, wrote Neumann's contemporary Samuel Baker, distinguished the superior hunter from the 'merciless gunner' ... away at halfconcealed elephants of unknown value and loses a commensurate number of wounded animals in the bush." |
 | | Animal Ser. Crocodile by Dan Wylie 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-123-5, ISBN: 1-78023-123-7 "Animal. Series editor: Jonathan Burt Already published Ant Charlotte Sleigh ∙ Ape John Sorenson ∙ Bear Robert E. Bieder Bee Claire Preston ∙ Camel Robert Irwin∙ Cat Katharine M. Rogers Chicken Annie Potts ∙ Cockroach Marion Copeland ... Jackson ∙Lobster Richard J. King ∙ Monkey Desmond Morris Moose Kevin Jackson∙ Mosquito Richard Jones ∙ Ostrich Edgar Williams Otter DanielAllen ∙Owl Desmond Morris ∙Oyster Rebecca Stott Parrot Paul ..." |
 | | SAILOR. Poems For My Father. by Dan. Wylie Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 2011 by Self. Grahamstown 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0-86810-476-8, ISBN: 0-86810-476-0 |
 | | Animal Ser. Elephant by Dan Wylie 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-615-5, ISBN: 1-86189-615-8 "... for Animal Welfare (ifaw) have maintained that the practice is 'cruel, unethical and scientifically unsound'.15 Since then, a more subtle and interesting strategy has been followed, dividing Kruger into several zones, each with a different approach, from hunting some elephants to leaving them entirely alone. This reflects the emergence of 'patchiness'. At any rate, perceived overpopulation in Kruger precipitated. numbers down!' ..." |
 | | ROAD WORK. by Dan Wylie Paperback, Published 2007 by Echoing Green P. ISBN-13: 978-0-9802501-3-8, ISBN: 0-9802501-3-7 |
 | | Dead Leaves(1st Edition) Two Years in the Rhodesian War by Dan Wylie Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Kwazulu-Natal Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86914-005-2, ISBN: 1-86914-005-2 "It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia's security forces. Ian Smith's minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way. For these inexperienced eighteen-year-olds, there is nothing to do but go on fighting, and hold the line while the transition happens around them. Dead Leaves is a richly textured memoir in which an ord ..." |
 | | Original Forest by Dan Wylie Paperback, 33 Pages, Published 2001 by Dupliprint, Grahamstown ISBN-13: 978-0-620-26919-3, ISBN: 0-620-26919-7 |
 | | The Road Out (in "Older Women" by Basil du Toit cover) by Dan Wylie 46 Pages, Published 1996 by Snailpress ISBN-13: 978-1-874923-35-0, ISBN: 1-874923-35-3 "Celebration For Mother - from whose branch the first line fell Suddenly, it is time to let go: the albizia's pods fall through the branches with their old, ..." |
 | | 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-Cooper, Neil Parsons, Jeff Peires, Christopher Saunders, Alan Webster, John Wright, Dan Wylie 471 Pages, Published 1995 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-296-5, ISBN: 1-77614-296-9 "Cf.M. Fortes and E.E.Evans-Pritchard, eds, African Political Systems, London, 1940; T.O. Ranger, ed., Aspects of Central African History, London, 1968. ... D.N. Beach, 'The Shona Economy: Branches of Production' in R. Palmer and N. Parsons, Roots of Rural Poverty in Central ... M. Wilson, 'The Sotho, Venda, and Tsonga', in M. Wilson and L. M. Thompson, eds, The Oxford History of South Africa, vol." |
 | | Myth of Iron(Illustrated) Shaka in History by Dan Wylie Hardcover, 615 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Kwazulu-Natal Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86914-047-2, ISBN: 1-86914-047-8 "Over the decades we have heard a great deal about Shaka, the most famous - or infamous - of Zulu leaders. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that we do not know when he was born, nor what he looked like, nor precisely when or why he was assassinated. In Shaka's case, even these most basic facts of any person's biography remain locked in obscurity. Meanwhile the public image, sometimes monstrous, sometimes heroic, juggernauts on - tru ..." |
 | | MYTH OF IRON Shaka In History. by Dan Wylie Published by University Kzn Press. Scottsville 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-85914-047-5, ISBN: 1-85914-047-5 |
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