The Bushmen
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good, rubbed edges. Usual shelf-wear.
For tens of thousands of years, the San people — known to the world as the Bushmen — roamed the vast landscapes of southern Africa as the continent's oldest surviving inhabitants, mastering the art of survival in some of the harshest environments on Earth. The Bushmen chronicles the lives, traditions, and spiritual world of this extraordinary people with both scholarly rigour and deep human empathy, drawing on Alf Wannenburgh's authoritative prose to illuminate a civilisation that predates recorded history. Accompanied by the stunning photography of Peter Johnson and Anthony Bannister, the book presents an intimate and visually arresting portrait of a culture defined by its profound connection to the land, its remarkable rock art, and its complex social bonds. This landmark work stands as both a cultural document and a work of photographic art, capturing a way of life that was already under existential threat at the time of publication. Wannenburgh's text argues powerfully for the recognition of the San as custodians of an irreplaceable human heritage, while Johnson and Bannister's images give face and form to that argument with breathtaking immediacy. It is a book that instructs as much as it moves — and leaves the reader questioning what is truly lost when an ancient culture fades from the world.
Author: Alf Wannenburgh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, C. Struik Publishers
Genre: African history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good, rubbed edges. Usual shelf-wear.
For tens of thousands of years, the San people — known to the world as the Bushmen — roamed the vast landscapes of southern Africa as the continent's oldest surviving inhabitants, mastering the art of survival in some of the harshest environments on Earth. The Bushmen chronicles the lives, traditions, and spiritual world of this extraordinary people with both scholarly rigour and deep human empathy, drawing on Alf Wannenburgh's authoritative prose to illuminate a civilisation that predates recorded history. Accompanied by the stunning photography of Peter Johnson and Anthony Bannister, the book presents an intimate and visually arresting portrait of a culture defined by its profound connection to the land, its remarkable rock art, and its complex social bonds. This landmark work stands as both a cultural document and a work of photographic art, capturing a way of life that was already under existential threat at the time of publication. Wannenburgh's text argues powerfully for the recognition of the San as custodians of an irreplaceable human heritage, while Johnson and Bannister's images give face and form to that argument with breathtaking immediacy. It is a book that instructs as much as it moves — and leaves the reader questioning what is truly lost when an ancient culture fades from the world.