Jacana: 156 books

It is 1916 on the German East African frontier – surrounded by the beauty and oppressive heat of the African savanna with its guardian, Kilimanjaro towering above the skyline, and a war of words and prejudice flares up – these are yet early days for the South African and Rhodesian regiments to...

The laughing dove and other poems is a collection that celebrates the natural world and our delicate place at the very edge of wilderness. Vernon RL Head sees like a birdwatcher and his unique arrangements of words shape a wondrous fact: Nature waits in the everyday: The freshness of a pavement-city-tree;...