Full name: Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa Peo

Author: Noel Mostert Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780679401360 0679401369

The story of the nine 'Kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the Xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing book. In a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the Cape, on territory demarcated by the Great Fish and the Great Kai Rivers. It was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impasse. Noel Mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the Xhosa. His starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the Cape, the Portugeuse, in 1492. In an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes South African society. Similar books: Diamonds, Gold, and War by Martin Meredith The Washing of the Spears by Donald R. Morris A short history of Africa by Roland Oliver Africa by John Reader The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham The Mirror at Midnight by Adam Hochschild The Fortunes of Africa by Martin Meredith The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Congo by David Van Reybrouck