1.) TRAILS AND TRIBES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (1975) &. 2.) TESTAMENT TO THE BUSHMEN (1984)

1.) TRAILS AND TRIBES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA by Peter Becker

First edition published by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1975.

Publisher's coarse cloth hardcover with pictorial dust jacket.

211pp. Illustrated.

'In Trails and Tribes of Southern Africa Peter Becker takes the reader with him on expedition: from the wild and desolate desert homes of the nomadic Bushmen, Hottentots and OvaHimba, as well as the Uukwambi along the Angolan border, to the crocodile-infested marshes of Mozambique, the royal villages and military settlements of Swaziland, the mountainous region of the Xhosa, and finally, to KwaZulu where he becomes intricately and fascinatingly involved in the lives of members of the Zulu royal dynasty. Everywhere we meet extraordinary people, startling landscapes and exotic customs.'

2.) TESTAMENT TO THE BUSHMEN by Laurens van der Post & Jane Taylor

First edition published by Viking, London, 1984.

Publisher's hardcover with illustrated dust jacket.

176pp. Illustrated.

'Testament o the Bushmen bears witness to the present plight of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. It is also a voyage of rediscovery for Sir Laurens van der Post whose earliest memories are of these gentle, storytelling people. In the long meditation with which he concludes this book, Sir Laurens sees the Bushmen as both a delightful, intelligent people in danger of destruction and, as "frontier scouts" on the borders of the unconscious.'