Collector's edition of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and autographed, this being #48.
Binding tight. Contents clean. Jacket still in very good condition with some mild age-associated edge wear. There is a closed tear of around 3cm at the base of the jacket but with no loss of paper.
xx + 388. Illustrations in profusion. Small bookseller's ticket at the bottom of the front paste down of the famous Thorold's Africana bookshop, which was located in the centre of Johannesburg for over a century.
'This book, illustrated by over 200 of Miss Vinnicombe's tracings and by photographs, is the definitive record of the Bushman culture in the Drakensberg and its environs. It also covers the period of contact between the Bushmen and the successive waves of immigrants, both Black and White, who, from time to time, moved into their homeland.
Unlike other books, however, this one gives the story from, as it were, the viewpoint of the Bushman. The author, by a careful study of the official records of reprisal expeditions against the Bushmen, was able to establish the probable escape routes they used. Then, in the field, she explored these routes in great detail. In several caves she found rock paintings showing parties of mounted Europeans which, in number and apparel, agree with the official records of the number of farmers and of troopers who took part in the expedition. These paintings thus appear to be true eyewitness records.
In the second and larger part of the book she discusses what is recorded in the literature about the Bushmen of the Drakensberg, tells what is known of their beliefs and attitudes to life and relates these to the contents of the paintings developing in the process an interesting theory of associations and avoidances supported by a statistical analysis of the subject matter of the paintings.
One is left with a clear picture not of a primitive people but of a people with well-developed religious and philosophical concepts, amounting to an ordered cosmology, who lived in remarkably close harmony with their environment.'
- Jacket Condition: Very Good
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Size: 22 x 27cm
- Sold By: Rare Paper
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- Country: South Africa
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