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“An off-beat anthology spanning four hundred years of travel in and around the southern tip of Africa. From early European seafarers making sometimes bloody contact with Khoikhoi at the Cape, to the era of railways, hotels and pass laws, The Wind Makes Dust takes us on an eccentric odyssey through the past. It parades a cast that includes soldiers and statesmen, cannibals both black and white, missionaries, elephant hunters, escaping slaves, circus showmen, fossil hunters, a shipwrecked Siamese mandarin and a homesick San shaman.
It also contains instructions for cooking elephant’s foot, some truly awful poetry, a quest for the unicorn, and a sprinkling of discreet sex.” Ranging from brutal to the commercial, these tales reveal a part of our history as experienced not by administrators or rulers, but by ordinary people fascinating “F Ginwala”
First Edition 2003. Softcover tight and clean, NO inscriptions. Tightly bound, boards solid, see our OWN picture for Quality
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