1899-40,000 Boer farmers declare war on the British Empire, defeat the most experienced regular army of the day, and make it a capital offence to shoot a British general.
The true story of Major Jan Pretorius, a South African elephant hunter and adventurer, this is a true tale of continuous adventure for a lifetime and considered one of the most extraordinary ever written.
The Anglo-Zulu War lasted only six months in 1879, but in that relatively short time twenty-three men were awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry under most trying and dangerous circumstances.
Subjects covered in these pages include: Egyptian SpiritualityThe Akhenaten Heresy and Its Impact on Religion and Mystical ThoughtCreation Mythology of the Four CentresThe Soul and Its Journey in Egyptian Metaphysical ThoughtSecrets of the Book of the DeadThe Nature of the Human BeingRa's Journey through the Underworld and Its Initiatory SignificanceEgyptian Mysteries as the Prototype of Ancient Mystery SchoolsShamans, Hierophants, and the Initiatory ProcessWisdom of the Egyptian Sages, from Ancient Egypt to the Hermetic Mystics of AlexandriaThe Heart as the Spiritual Self and Monitor of Morality in Human BehaviourKIRKUS REVIEW:A collection of insights into the esoteric meanings of ancient Egyptian religious and spiritual practices.
Sir Reginald Coupland was widely regarded as an authority on David Livingstone, a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary and an explorer in Africa, who was one of the most popular national heroes of late-19th-century in Victorian Britain.
In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen-often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class-who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power.
The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by “a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars” (Kirkus Reviews).
'A just biography of an important figure-political philosopher, soldier in three wars, scientist, statesman-Jan Smuts, who has played a long and decisive role in the formation and consolidation of South Africa.
In From Bengal to the Cape, Professor Ansu Datta opens up a hitherto little researched topic of transoceanic slave trade between mainly southern Bengal and the Cape in the Republic of South Africa.
This book is about two of the most prominent leaders of South Africa, leaders whose respective roles shaped and influenced South Africa, both positively and negatively.
With the plight of refugees constantly in the news this gripping story of the exile of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in Britain is both timely and intriguing.
General Gordons death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi was a crucial episode in British imperial history.
For anyone who has ever wondered whether they have lived before, the story of Hori,an Ancient Egyptian priest who lived some 3,500 years ago in Ancient Egypt, at Karnak,Thebes, is inspiring.
The Barbary Corsairs were a group of pirates that operated out of the northern African ports of Sale, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli during the Sixteenth century.
The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and it was a war in which mechanized forces-tanks in particular-excelled.
