Author: Laurens Van der PostPublisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen of South Africa.
The Lost World of the Kalahari
Author: Laurens Van der PostPublisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen of South Africa.
The Lost World of the Kalahari
Author: Laurens Van der PostPublisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : Kalahari Desert
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Seventy-five stunning color photographs have been added as well as an epilogue by the author.
The Lost World of the Kalahari
Author: Sir Laurens Van der PostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen (San (African people)) of South Africa (Kalahari Desert)
The Lost World of the Kalahari
Author: Laurens Van der PostPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780701132958
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book is designed to help MIS and information center managers and their staffs to efficiently and cost effectively meet the needs of end-users in their organizations. Focusing on managerial aspects of information centers, Robert J. Thierauf explores the ways in which new information technology--spreadsheets, query languages, report writers, word processing, etc.--can be placed in the hands of end-users without the interdepartmental conflict and loss of systems control often associated with such transitions.
Through the Kalahari Desert
Author: G. Antonio FariniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botswana
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Kalahari
Author: Jessica KhouryPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1595147667
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"Survivor meets James Bond in this page-turning mix of realism and science fiction." —Voice of Youth Advocates Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret… But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It’s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate. But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything she’s ever known about the natural world. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lion’s silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area—and eliminate life as they know it. In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.
Hyena Nights & Kalahari Days
Author: M. G. L. MillsPublisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1770098119
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this fascinating account of scientific study among forbidding wilderness, a husband-and-wife team describe their trek to the Kalahari to study the little-known brown hyena. The details of the scientific inquiry are provided while the daily challenges of living with children 420 kilometers from the nearest town are described. Despite the hardships, the couple becomes so enchanted by these intelligent animals that they stay for 12 years, documenting many hyena clans and observing behavior only a handful of people have ever seen.
The Lost World of the Kalahari
Author: The Harmless People
Author: Elizabeth Marshall ThomasPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic
The Heart Of The Hunter
Author: Laurens Van Der PostPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407073060
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.