"The story of two women - one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist - this book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman. Here, however, the groun…
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 A…
Presents an account of an expedition into the Kalahari Desert to study the way of life of the mysterious African Bushmen, and examines the effects of industrial civilization on their unique culture.
