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At the time of printing the first edition of this book, the last of the Kalahari Bushmen were being drawn irrevocably into the vortex of our civilisation. Aware of the urgency of the task, the author, a professional journalist, and experienced wildlife photographers, Peter Johnson and Anthony Bannister, searched deep in the Kalahari thirstlands to find those few remaining Bushmen who still lived as their forefathers have, for the past 20 000 years.Their quest led them to people who have never tried to conquer their environment, to people who have remained instead 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. All those thousands of years ago, our own forefathers chose the path of conquest. In a sense, the author and hotographers wanted to experience the alternative they had forsaken. This is their superb record – the last of the Bushmen as hunter-gatherers.
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Title: THE BUSHMEN
Product Code: English/ Hardcover/Dustjacket
Code: SNH-1868721833
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Author: Alf Wannenburgh
Photographer: Anthony Bannister &
Peter Johnson
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