TRACKS IN A MOUNTAIN RANGE BY JOHN WRIGHT AND ARON MAZEL

TRACKS IN A MOUNTAIN RANGE: EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF THE UKHAHLAMBA-DRAKENSBERG BY JOHN WRIGHT AND ARON MAZEL, WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS. SOFTCOVER, 155 PAGES, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

Since the arrival of literate European settlers in what is now KwaZulu-Natal in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, numerous stories about the Drakensberg region have made their way into print. But for every story which happens to have been written down, there are many others which have not, and which are therefore unavailable to us in our aim of wanting to establish a modern-day understanding of the history of the Drakensberg. This applies especially to the stories told by the unlettered San hunter-gatherers and their forebears during the several thousand years for which they inhabited these mountains, and by the isiNtu-speaking black farmers who have lived in the neighboring uplands for the past thousand years or so. But it also applies to the unwritten stories told by European colonizers and their descendants over the last century and a half.