The Harmless People - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ( Bushmen interest)
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Product information
Hardcover with DJ. Secker & Warburg First edition 1959. 266 pages.
The DJ is unclipped but has some small tears to edges. The book has some slight foxing as one would expect. Previous owners name on ffep. Tightly bound.
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" Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has visited and lived with four of the language goups in to which these Bushmen are divided, in 1951,1952 and 1955. Writing tenderley of people for whom she acquired a real affection she describes a way of life which seems well nigh incredible : their hunting, eating, marriage customs, songs, dances, attitude to children, magic, cosmology. But fascinating though the details are, they are not the main attraction of this gentle book. Here we are out of time, in a world where every sunrise is a miracle, where hunger and pain are a terrible yet strangely reassuring reminder of man's unity with nature, where the ability to stay alive is so precious as to render superfluous the necessities of civilization. It is a world of immense restfulness."
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