2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
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In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the deathof their language, several San men and women told theirstories to two pioneering colonial scholars at the Cape, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. The narratives of these San(or Bushmen) were of the land, the rain, the history of the firstpeople, and the origin of the moon and stars. These narrativeswere faithfully recorded and translated by Bleek and Lloyd, creatingan archive of more than 13,000 pages including drawings, notebooks, maps, and photographs. Now...