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Author : Laurens Van der Post
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Kalahari Desert
ISBN : UOM:49015000011487
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen of South Africa.
Author : Laurens Van der Post
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Kalahari Desert
ISBN : PSU:000019444024
Seventy-five stunning color photographs have been added as well as an epilogue by the author.
Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781407073064
In this moving sequel to The Lost World of the Kalahari van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and lore of Africa's first inhabitants. The Heart of the Hunter is a journey into the mind and spirit of the Bushmen, a people outlawed by the advance of blacks and whites alike.
Author : G. Antonio Farini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Botswana
ISBN : SRLF:AX0001502178
Author : Sir Laurens Van der Post
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1401828256
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen (San (African people)) of South Africa (Kalahari Desert)
Author : Jessica Khoury
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698151048
Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret… But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It’s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate. But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything she’s ever known about the natural world. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lion’s silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area—and eliminate life as they know it. In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.
Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407072913
Presented together now for the first time, Laurens van der Post's collected writings will reveal as never before the fullness of his perceptive, wise and remarkably consistent vision. In all of them his inspiration has been that of an adventurous pioneer exploring not just the outward aspects of a turbulent and troubled world but, at a deeper level, the patterns and paradoxes of human life, the myths and dreams of the human mind, the values and cultures of different peoples, the elusive springs of our own people.
Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307772954
“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400079414
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties (“the finest age to be”) she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiancé. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has not set the date for their marriage. Her able assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband. And worse, a rival detective agency has opened in town—an agency that does not have the gentle approach to business that Mma Ramotswe’s does. But, of course, Precious will manage these things, as she always does, with her uncanny insight and her good heart.
Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407073248
Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.
Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407072944
This is a story of an almost vanished Africa; a world of myth and magic in which the indigenous peoples of the continent lived for uncountable centuries before the Europeans came to shatter it. The main character is a boy who has a relationship with this Africa not unlike Kipling's Kim with the antique world of India. François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa three hundred years ago, lives as a solitary child on his father's farm. 'Hunter's Drift'. Here, in the far interior of Africa, he experiences the wonder and mystery of an ageless, natural primitive life, his perception of it heightened by the influence of three people in particular - his Bushman nurse, the head herdsman of the local Matabele clan (his father's chosen partners in the pioneering of Hunter's Drift), and a hunter of legendary fame, now the chief ranger of a vast game reserve nearby. François' meeting with an untamed Bushman, Xhabbo, whose intuitive teaching nourishes his spirit; his strange pilgrimage to the distant krall of a powerful witch-doctor; his dramatic encounter and relationship with the daughter of a retired colonial governor; all are examples of African point and European counterpoint, in a highly original theme, moving to a strangely presaged and omened climax.
Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781407073125
Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life.
Author : Paul John Myburgh
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143529910
This is a true story of exodus, the inevitable journey of the last of the First People, as they leave the Great Sand Face and head for the modern world and cultural oblivion. Paul John Myburgh spent seven years with the 'People of the Great Sand Face', a group of /Gwikwe Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert. They were years of physical and spiritual immersion into a way of life of which only an echo remains in living memory. But all does not end there. In The Bushman Winter Has Come, the author imagines a continuing journey towards a place where we may, once again, know who we are in the context of our life on this earth ... towards a time when we may answer the /Gwikwe's morning greeting, Tsamkwa/tge? (Are your eyes nicely open?) with a confident Yes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966116604
Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429954518
One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots—and the roots of life as we know it When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The Harmless People (1959). It has never gone out of print. Back then, this was uncharted territory and little was known about our human origins. Today, our beginnings are better understood. And after a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution. As she displayed in her bestseller, The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas has a rare gift for giving voice to the voices we don't usually listen to, and helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. In The Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is "knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas vividly brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom. The Old Way is a rare and remarkable achievement, sure to stir up controversy, and worthy of celebration.