THE KALAHARI AND ITS LOST CITY;

xv, 214 pages, [8] pages of plates: illustrations, portraits (1 as frontispiece), maps (4 on endpapers). Pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper. A crisp copy.                                                                                          

Numerous attempts have been made to find this city- to no avail! In his brilliant Foreword Professor Tobias accepts that no such city existed or exists! However he draws together the threads of exploration, discovery, anticipation, and the fact that the 'city' that Farini 'found', meant many others came to the Kalahari and there they found traces of pre-historic man (raised terraces, implements of stone and bone), the remnants of Khoi-San herder groups still living their lives as they had for thousands of years, geological formations and botanical discoveries.Tobias points out that the evidence of pre-historic man were found everywhere in the Kalahari and as a result suggests that the romantic South African who wish for ruins and castles should instead 'concentrate on probable pre-history instead of doubtful history'. (Page ix)