Word: zululand
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...novel about Zululand in the form of a monologue by a homicidal maniac has the makings of a rather engaging talc. Unfortunately, when much of the story consists of "Chicken Every Sunday" family incidents, the musings of a madman are hardly the appropriate narrative device. Only the excellent and perceptive writing and the author's wide knowledge of the locale rescue the book fro the awkwardness of the plot...
...Eshowe, the pleasant little Zululand capital some 800 miles to the northeast, native chieftains were already laying plans to have their men come in from the surrounding kraals for a vast war-dance on the airfield to welcome royalty...
...northern Zululand's subtropical bush, an army of hunters stood poised for the greatest game hunt in South African history. This week, at a signal from Scientist Gilles De Kock, they would raise their guns and assagais (spears), and plunge into the jungle. Quarry: the tsetse...
...such delusions during the two years he lived. Their 17 -year-old son, Prince Louis, would make no play for public affection, by which alone a restoration might have been conceivable; it was a Napoleon's business, he insisted, to be a soldier. He was killed in Zululand...
...Casablanca with Major General George S. Patton Jr.-and by Clipper and boat via Argentina came LIFE Editor Noel Busch on a special assignment to South Africa, to join Hart Preston, fresh out of Ankara, who was last heard from hedgehopping kraals, crocodiles and elephant herds in Zululand...