The Lost World of the Kalahari
by Laurens van der Post
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Author: Laurens van der PostEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1977-11-03
ISBN: 0156537060
Number of pages: 279
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company/A Harvest Book
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- ISBN13: 9780156537063
- Condition: New
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Book Review: gripping, informative and inspiring
Summary: 5 Stars
I stayed up until three AM reading this book. It's both gripping, informative and inspiring. Van Der Post starts out telling us about the wild Bushman, untamed or corrupted by civilization, almost extinct in his time, certainly gone by now. Then he regales us with a wonderful story about his expedition into the deepest dessert areas of the Kalahari to find the last living indigenous Bushmen. There is magic in this book, in the panoramic, images he paints of nature scenes and spiritual moments of insight and mystic wonder. Part of the goal of the expedition was to create a documentary for BBC. I'd love to find a copy of that to view. The mixture of the gritty reality of mounting and carrying out a real safari expedition, blended with the wonder and surprise the author shares makes this a very special book. We have so much to learn from history's lost indigenous cultures. Books like these help remind us of the different, incredible ways one can be human. If you like this, you will most certainly also like Original Wisdom, by Robert Wolff.
Summary of The Lost World of the Kalahari
An account of the author?s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa?s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.
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