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Kalahari diaries : impressions of a desert people / Allen Zimbler.

LIBRA DT2458.S26 Z56 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Zimbler, Allen, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Zimbler, Allen--Travel.
Zimbler, Allen.
San (African people)--Social life and customs.
San (African people).
Kalahari Desert--Description and travel.
Kalahari Desert.
Botswana.
Africa--Kalahari Desert.
Physical Description:
303 pages : color illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
Distribution:
New Haven; London : Yale University Press, 2025.
Place of Publication:
[London] : Paul Holberton Publishing, 2025.
Contents:
Editor's foreword / Derek Niemann
Foreword / Kileni Fernando
Preface / Allen Zimbler
Map of Botswana
Izak
Heart of the Kalahari
Bad arrows
Plants as people
Poison
The healer
The blind child
Encountering Bïisá
Stories
The making of Loose Boy
Throwing the bones
The hunt
Drotsky's caves
Tsodilo Hills
God's own palace
Where lions roam free
A line in the sand
Gift of a goat
The root of all evil
Nomads no more
Ausgeträumt
The Ju/'hoansi of Nyae Nyae
Appendix: Bushman objects in the Zimbler collection
Glossary
Acknowledgements.
ISBN:
9781913645915
1913645916
OCLC:
1523025628
Publisher Number:
90103968435

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