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• catalog abstract ""Although brought up in "grey, drearily ordinary" London, Rupert Isaacson's links to Africa were strong. Polly, his mother, was a South African and his father was raised in what is now Zimbabwe. Polly kept her memories of Africa alive and handed them on to her children via remembrances to her early life there. Thus, from an early age, Isaacson was fascinated: "Long before I ever went to southern Africa, its names and regions had been described to me so many times that I could picture them in my mind's eye."" "After growing up with these tales and myths - mostly of the Kalahari Bushmen - Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland, which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia, to discover the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari, Isaacson meets the last group of Bushmen still living the traditional way, caught between their ancient culture and the growing need to protect and reclaim their dwindling hunting grounds. Dawid Kruiper, leader of these Xhomani Bushmen, allows Isaacson to observe their daily life, and he begins to understand the extent of their disenfranchisement. They have not only decreased in number, but have been literally reduced to beggars, having lost their land and their means of subsistence, and with that their identity as a people has been profoundly threatened." "The Healing Land records Isaacson's personal transformation amid these extraordinary people and his passionate contribution to their political struggle. It captures his enchantment with the character, kindness, and confusion of a place that has wrenched itself from the Stone Age into the new millennium."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Bushmen and the Kalahari desert".
• catalog contributor b12802454.
• catalog coverage "Africa, Southern Description and travel.".
• catalog coverage "Kalahari Desert Description and travel.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Although brought up in "grey, drearily ordinary" London, Rupert Isaacson's links to Africa were strong. Polly, his mother, was a South African and his father was raised in what is now Zimbabwe. Polly kept her memories of Africa alive and handed them on to her children via remembrances to her early life there. Thus, from an early age, Isaacson was fascinated: "Long before I ever went to southern Africa, its names and regions had been described to me so many times that I could picture them in my mind's eye."" "After growing up with these tales and myths - mostly of the Kalahari Bushmen - Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland, which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia, to discover the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari, Isaacson meets the last group of Bushmen still living the traditional way, caught between their ancient culture and the growing need to protect and reclaim their dwindling hunting grounds. Dawid Kruiper, leader of these Xhomani Bushmen, allows Isaacson to observe their daily life, and he begins to understand the extent of their disenfranchisement. They have not only decreased in number, but have been literally reduced to beggars, having lost their land and their means of subsistence, and with that their identity as a people has been profoundly threatened." "The Healing Land records Isaacson's personal transformation amid these extraordinary people and his passionate contribution to their political struggle. It captures his enchantment with the character, kindness, and confusion of a place that has wrenched itself from the Stone Age into the new millennium."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "pt. 1: Ancestral voices: Stories and myths -- Lessons in reality -- Under the big tree. pt. 2: The mantis, the mouse and the bird: Regopstaan's prophecy -- A human zoo -- Old magic, new beliefs -- Trance dance at Buitsevango -- Into the central Kalahari. pt. 3: The good little donkeys: Revelations at the red house -- The same blood -- Dream and disillusion -- The leopard man -- Dawid makes a request -- Bushman politics -- Off to see a wizard -- The river of spirits -- What happened after.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 278 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0802117392".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Grove Press,".
• catalog spatial "Africa, Southern Description and travel.".
• catalog spatial "Africa, Southern".
• catalog spatial "Kalahari Desert Description and travel.".
• catalog spatial "Kalahari Desert".
• catalog subject "306/.089/961 21".
• catalog subject "DT1058.S36 I83 2001".
• catalog subject "Isaacson, Rupert Travel Africa, Southern.".
• catalog subject "Isaacson, Rupert Travel Kalahari Desert.".
• catalog subject "San (African people) Africa, Southern Social life and customs.".
• catalog subject "San (African people) Kalahari Desert Social life and customs.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1: Ancestral voices: Stories and myths -- Lessons in reality -- Under the big tree. pt. 2: The mantis, the mouse and the bird: Regopstaan's prophecy -- A human zoo -- Old magic, new beliefs -- Trance dance at Buitsevango -- Into the central Kalahari. pt. 3: The good little donkeys: Revelations at the red house -- The same blood -- Dream and disillusion -- The leopard man -- Dawid makes a request -- Bushman politics -- Off to see a wizard -- The river of spirits -- What happened after.".
• catalog title "Bushmen and the Kalahari desert".
• catalog title "The healing land : the bushmen and the Kalahari desert / Rupert Isaacson.".
• catalog type "text".