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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    September 2011
    June 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139051064
    9781108031387
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051064
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.23kg, 172 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Historical Geography, History, African History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Historical Geography, History, African History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    John Dunn (1834–95) became an infamous figure ('a perfect gorilla') in Britain after his involvement in the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. A British subject who had lived all his life in South Africa, he spent his early years learning to be an expert hunter of large game before becoming a confidant of the Zulu king Cetshwayo, quickly accumulating wealth and power; although already married, he took forty-nine wives and fathered one hundred and seventeen children. However, when war broke out he sided with the British against his former friend and patron, and was rewarded with a huge tract of territory in the former Zulu kingdom. This book, published in 1886 and edited by his friend D. C. F. Moodie (1838–91), presents his side of the story, and contains fascinating insights into an extraordinary life lived among the Zulus in the nineteenth century.

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