The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is delighted that Rob Caskie will give a series of lectures in June 2009. These will be hosted by a number of key supporters of the Trust at the various venues throughout England and Scotland.
The full list of venues can be found here
Hosts for each talk will choose which lecture they wish to hear, the Battle of Isandlwana or Rorke’s Drift. The first lecture contains a mesmerising account of the Battle of Isandlwana. It was beneath this strange Sphinx-shaped mountain that a British force of nearly 1800 men were surrounded by 25000 Zulu warriors on 22nd January 1879. In little more than 2 hours, more than 1300 men on the British side lay dead.
The second lecture vividly explains how a large force of Zulu warriors chose then to run on from Isandlwana to attack the mission station at Rorke’s Drift. It was an epic of human struggle and a triumph of the human spirit, immortalised in the classic movie ‘Zulu’.
David Rattray was acknowledged by many in Britain as the finest public speaker and storyteller of his age in the world. His stories were not tales about conflict, but rather stories about compassion and with his unequalled knowledge of the Zulu War, David enthralled audiences all over the world.
Rob Caskie worked alongside David Rattray for 6 years before David’s tragic death in January 2007. Now the principal lecturer at Fugitives’ Drift Lodge, Rob continues to share these dramas with the passion, emotion and vigour instilled in him by David.
All the information about the talks can be found here
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