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The Healing Land Rupert Isaacson

The Healing Land By Rupert Isaacson

The Healing Land by Rupert Isaacson


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Summary

An exploration of Africa's oldest and most famous population. The Bushmen of the Kalahari have long been mythologized and are firmly entrenched in the Western mind. This is Rupert Isaacson's account of his search for this truth about the Bushmen through Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.

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The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey by Rupert Isaacson

An exploration - part travel writing, part personal quest - of Africa's oldest and most famous population. The Bushmen have long been mythologized and are firmly entrenched in the Western mind. But what is it about hunter-gatherers that is so attractive us, and why do we need these myths? Fascinated by this disappearing population, Rupert Isaacson has been venturing into the Kalahari since he was a child and his book is a search for this truth about the Bushmen through Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Part travel writing, part history of the Bushmen, part personal quest, the work records what he found there, the landscapes he travelled through, the wildlife he hunted and ate, the characters, corruption and confusion of a people who have wrenched themselves out of the Stone Age (it wasn't until 1948 that it became illegal to kill Bushmen) into a cash economy over the last decade of the 20th century.

The Healing Land Reviews

'The story is a familiar one, but it has never been told quite this way, by a narrator so open-hearted, optimistic and vulnerable to enchantment . . . This is a very sweet book, full of mystery, magic and strange coincidence, and it even has a happy ending, unusual in Africa. Highly recommended.' Rian Malan

About Rupert Isaacson

Rupert Isaacson was born in 1967. He has written guide books to many African countries and is about to publish a guide to outdoor adventure in Britain. He writes for the Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and does features for Radio 5.

Additional information

GOR001174583
9781857028973
185702897X
The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey by Rupert Isaacson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20020204
288
N/A
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