1979
By Penny Miller
Edited by Rosemund Handler

SOUTHERN AFRICA is a fantastic melting pot of human beings. This is its great fascination. Living here today are people whose culture is still of the later stone age, others who live in the iron age, and yet others belonging to the age of the atom. There are people from the east, from the west, from the north, people like the Bushmen who were here so far back that they seem to have always been a part of the sundrenched landscape.

In the varied scenic setting of Southern Africa, all these people have in widely different ways confronted nature, come to metaphysical terms with the wonders of the land around them, devised their own explanations, myths, legends and romances about the mystery of nature, their own beginnings, the parallel community of ghosts, demons, fairies, monsters and other creatures, good and bad, of the dream world.

THROUGH the pages of this book you will meet many strange characters - witches, witchdoctors, mediums, diviners, mystics, ghosts, ogres, mermen and mermaids, human beings who claim to be able to change into wild animals, wild animals possessed by strange wisdom or spirits. Here are the myths of the mountains, the rivers, waterfalls and forests; the wonderful dreams of many people whose minds have groped in the dark in search of a tiny light to illuminate the immensity of space and the baffling riddles of the universe.
(Introduction by T.V Bulpin)

238mm x 318mm

R1,000