The Lost World of the Kalahari
Author | : Laurens Van der Post |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen of South Africa.
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Author | : Laurens Van der Post |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An account of the author's search for the vanishing Bushmen of South Africa.
Author | : Laurens Van der Post |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Seventy-five stunning color photographs have been added as well as an epilogue by the author.
Author | : Laurens Van der Post |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780701132958 |
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.
Author | : Jessica Khoury |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2015-02-24 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698151046 |
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.
Author | : M. G. L. Mills |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1770098119 |
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.
Author | : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307772950 |
“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
Author | : Alexander McCall Smith |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004-06-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400079411 |
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties (“the finest age to be”) she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiancé. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has not set the date for their marriage. Her able assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband. And worse, a rival detective agency has opened in town—an agency that does not have the gentle approach to business that Mma Ramotswe’s does. But, of course, Precious will manage these things, as she always does, with her uncanny insight and her good heart.