Selected files relating to the visit of Ann and Ken Turner’s visit to South Africa in 2007

 

Ann and Ken Turner gave a joint illustrated talk on ‘H. Rider Haggard and The Zulus: Then and  Now’ on February 21st 2008 at Hughes Hall.

 

Friends who missed our talk may like to find a good deal of our presentations together with additional material by visiting the following sites:

A short history of the Zulu Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century — a pdf of the printed text. ZuluHistory — a web powerpoint version of Ken’s accompanying presentation of supporting images, photographs and graphics on the history of the Zulu Nation and the British from 1820 to the text.

Henry Rider Haggard and the Zulus—a web version of Ann’s presentation images supporting Chapters 1, 2 & 3 of Ann’s doctoral thesis ‘Some romance fictions of Henry Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson’ relating specifically to Henry Rider Haggard — .pdf versions of Ch1 Ch2 Ch3 of her thesis can also be viewed

Why this battlefield matters more today: An Observer Escape article of 25:02:07 relating to the work and tragic murder of David Rattray.

The Battlefields Today — a supporting web powerpoint of photgraphs and graphics of our visit but also supporting the cinematic versions of  DVDs of Zulu, Zulu Dawn, Shaka and other video material which can be separately viewed.

The Zulus: Then and Now — a reflection on our visit to KwaZulu-Natal and the cultural experiences and discussions we had with modern Zulus — also in the form of a web powerpoint.

 

Other images from our visit to South Africa in 2007 can be viewed via the following:

 

South Africa Thumbnails' an  indexes of thumbnails for the entire unedited photographic images together with their file names from our tour. Clicking on an image will produce an enlarged picture which you can capture with a right click. A back arrow should take you back to the thumbnails.

South Africa Sony Snaps — similar process to the first set.

Kirstenbosch Slideshow This is a .pdf slide show of Ken’s photographs of the beautiful gardens, views and flowers in the world famous botanic gardens near Cape Town.

It is well worth downloading this file, saving it first, then reloading it from your copy and viewing it in Acrobat Reader. Broadband is probably necessary for this as the file containing the images is 13.75 Mbts. large. Accepting the Acrobat Reader option to use the full screen makes the slideshow full screen width and scrolls automatically.

South Africa Select1 (SASelect2 and SA People are sets of selected or better quality

 images from the later stages of our tour — Not yet ready)

 

Happy viewing, Ken

 

Roger Lund, one of our fellow visiters sent me these photos and press cutting from a South African friend about the floods we experienced at Knysn in the Western Cape. You can see them at Knysna floods  Knysna doc1  and  Knysna doc2  We escaped by the skin of our teeth and the magnanimity of our tour companies and the foresight of their personnel from 48cms of rain in 48 hours!