What I Saw in Kaffir-Land: Experiences With 'the Waterkloof Rangers' During the Xhosa Wars in Cape Colony

by Stephen Lakeman

Book Overview

A complex and controversial Victorian's account of war

It is fatal to project the attitudes of the modern (or any) age onto those of another time or to view historical events from any perspectives other than that of those who took part in them. It is a difficult discipline for the modern reader to master and, perhaps inevitably, history is evaluated from our own moral standpoint irrespective of whether that would in itself ultimately stand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857066641
• ISBN13: 9780857066640
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"