The Abundant Herds: A Celebration of the the NUGUNI cattle of the ZULU People

Marguerite Polan:David Hammond Tooke: Leigh Voight

Hardcover 

Coffee Table Book

A Celebration of the the NUGUNI cattle of he ZULU People

This is a book about human creativity not the creativity of the plastic arts, of of music, but rather that of the poet, the wordsmith. This unique book gives an overview of the history of the Nuguni cattle and their economic, social, political, and spiritual importance to the Zulu people, both past and present.

Publication Date:2003 reprint 2007. Binding: Hardcover, tight clean mint. Book Condition: New Cover Brown cloth, with Dust Wrapper Illustrated (see our picture)with oil and water colour paintings, and sepia drawings by internationally acclaimed artist, Leigh Voigt, it examines the oral tradition of the Zulu people. Cattle have become a part of the spiritual and aesthetic lives of people which has given rise to poetic and complex naming practice..