The Girl who Made Stars
The Girl who Made Stars

Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek

Publisher: Daimon

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 3856305998

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These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories in this book carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.

Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Specimens of Bushmen Folklore

Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek

Publisher: Daimon

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 385630603X

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This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known people. As Megan Biesele writes in her Foreword: The fact that a family of trained linguists and their associates sat down between 1870 and 1884 with a group of /Xam people who had been temporarily sprung free of imprisonment in Cape Town's Breakwater Prison has immense potential consequences. San people today, like indigenous peoples all over the world, are quietly organizing educational futures for themselves which will make fine use of this record of the intellectual history of their culture. This edition reproduces the English text of the 1911 edition and is richly illustrated with photographs.

Claim to the Country
Claim to the Country

Author: Pippa Skotnes

Publisher: Jacana Media

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1770093370

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Consists of all the notebook pages, watercolours and drawings that comprise the bulk of the Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek /Xam and !Kun (Bushmen) archive, with photographs, documents, letters and notes, as well as contextualizing essays and an index for the included narratives and contributors.

The Heart Of The Hunter
The Heart Of The Hunter

Author: Laurens Van Der Post

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-10-31

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1407073060

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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.