Blood River by Tim Butcher is the bestselling travel writing book of recent years and with good reason.

Or weren't you taught about the Battle of Blood River?

The same number of wagons were used at the Battle of Blood River to form the laager.

The Battle of Blood River, as it came understandably to be called, had no parallel in recent world history.

The culmination came at the Battle of Blood River (1838) in Natal.

Anyone who enjoyed Blood River will enjoy this.

They saw the Battle of Blood River as a lesson for South Africa's white minority.

He told his followers to "be ready physically and militarily just as we were at Blood River."

The Blood River somehow turned white on its thundering way down.

Then the white men came, and I fought for Dingaan at the battle of the Blood River.