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The last of the Kalahari Bushmen are slowly disappearing, drawn irrevocably into the vortex of our civilization. Aware of the urgency of the task, the author and the photographers searched deep in the Kalahari thirstlands to find those few remaining Bushmen who still lived as their forefathers had done for the past 20,000 years. Their quest led them to a people who had never tried to conquer their environment, who had, instead, remained an integral part of it. The rhythms of the traditional Bushman are the rhythms of nature. The tempo of their lives fluctuates with its changes. It is integrated in their folklore, celebrated in their rituals and enshrined in their cosmology. Thousands of years ago, our own forefathers chose the path of conquest. In a sense, the author and photographers wanted to document the alternative their ancestors had forsaken. In these gentle and resourceful people, so totally aware and at one with their environment, the photographers found much that echoed their own ideals. In trying to capture on film the Bushman and his complete integration into the fabric of nature, they learned that the Bushmen are a shy people and slow to open their hearts to strangers. It took many months of living among them, sharing their campfires and their hardships, of joining their hunts and of being rationed to a liter of muddy water per day, before the photographers were able to obtain this intimate record of these remarkable people. This is their superb record: The last of the Bushmen living as hunter-gatherers.
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- PublisherNew Holland Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1868721833
- ISBN 13 9781868721832
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback. 4to. (1999). 2nd Edition. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Seller Inventory # 009380
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd. Cloth, 171 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards, age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates of the San & Kung people (African "Bushmen") of the Kalahari desert. Size: Folio. Seller Inventory # 098533
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. The Bushmen. Sunned spine to D/J. Photography by Peter Johnson and Anthony Bannister. Heavy book. Overseas orders may have to pay extra postage. Contents: Acknowledgements. The 10,000-Year Generation Gap. The Earth in Waiting. The Waters of Resurrection. The Heart of the Hunter. The Eternal Fire. Brown Hyaena in the Sun. Explanatory Note on Clicks. Illustrated throughout. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 111621
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photographs by Peter Johnson & Anthony Banninster (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 1999. 2nd edition. Hardback in jacket. 30.5x24.5cm. 64 pages plus 172 colour photos. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref dlcn. Seller Inventory # 048381
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