Description
Zululand Wilderness: Shadow and Soul – Ian Player
In Mfolozi Game Reserve in 1952, a young cadet game ranger, Ian Player, met Qumbu Magqubu Ntombela, who had begun his career in 1914. It was the beginning of a profound friendship between a black and a white man that took them along rhino, elephant and hippo paths, across the Black and White Umfolozi rivers, and into the domain of ancient Zulu kings, Dingiswayo, Shaka and others.
Their association involved battling against poaching gangs, initiating the internationally famous capture and translocation of the White Rhino, setting aside the first wilderness area in southern Africa and leading the first wilderness trails.
This is a very different wildlife story: it tells how two men of entirely different cultures and backgrounds learnt from each other; it reveals the interdependence of man, the landscape and the wild life; and suggests that the healing powers of the wilderness have the power to transform a nation.
