This multi-volume series is an indispensable research tool for scholars working on the history and ethnography of the Zulu kingdom and ne3ighbouring states. James Stuart was an official in the Natal colonial civil service in the 1890's and early years of the twentieth century. In meticulously recorded interviews with hundred or informants, the great majority of them Africans, he assembled a vast and unique collection of notes on the traditions and customs of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples. Volume 5 contains statements from another 40 of the informants whom Stuart interviewed in the first...

The opposing forces of conservation and development have shaped and will continue to shape the natural environment and scenic beauty of the American West. Perhaps nowhere are their opposite effects more visible than in the neighboring states of Colorado and Utah, so alike in their spectacular mountain environments, yet so different in their approaches to land conservation. This study explores why Colorado has over twenty-five land trusts, while Utah has only one.

John Wright traces the success of voluntary land conservation in Colorado to the state's history as a region of secular...

James Stuart was an official in the Natal colonial civil service in the 1890s and early years of the 20th century. In meticulously recorded conversations with some 200 interlocutors, the great majority of them Africans, Stuart assembled a vast and unique collection of notes on the history and customs of the Zulu people and other peoples of what is now South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region. This sixth volume of The James Stuart Archive series presents a further 26 sets of testimonies drawn from material in the James Stuart Collection of the Killie Campbell Africana Library in Durban, South...

In John B. Wright's debut environmental mystery, Matt Solberg is charged with discovering who is lighting fires in the forests that surround Missoula, Montana. A geographer with a deep personal need to bring people out of danger, Matt leads a search and rescue team whose job is to head directly into the mouth of hell, hiking into blazing backcountry to find missing residents. Matt and his team not only rely on their hard-won knowledge of Montana's wild landscape, but also on Matt's mentor, Dr. Bill Knight, a fire ecologist who understands the burning beast better than anyone. When a...