1. The cradle of humankind. Pre-human, nearly human and almost human: searching for our forebears - 2. Natural Heritage Monument, Maropeng. Lost wax, a lost statue and freedom lost and found: searching for heroes of the past - 3. The Johannesburg Museum of Military History. Civil war and uncivil war: searching for an acre full of guns and heroes - 4. Mapungubwe. Stone citadels, cities of gold and protective spirits; searching for ancestral treasures - 5. Kruger National Park. Big game, big trees and a ticking conservation time bomb: searching for a game reserve that very nearly wasn't - 6. Adam's calendar. Lost worlds, celestial almanacs and off-world visitors: searching for the truth among standing and lying stones - 7. Kosi Bay. Fish traps, turtle eggs and skokiaan: searching for amphibious invaders between the tides - 8. Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. Imperial arrogance, Victorian pride and African Spartans: searching for honour on a field of blood - 9. Mont-aux-Sources and the amphitheatre. A vulture-eagle, a tsunami in stone and a ladder to heaven: searching for the country's most amazing landscape - 10. Kamberg Game Pass Shelter. The story of !Xabo, images of power and a secret app: searching for the meaning in Bushman art - 11. Lambazi Bay, Port Grosvenor. A lonely bay, the wondrously Wild Coast and a terrible saga of castaways: searching for the fate of the Grosvenor - 12. Hogsback. A place of waterfalls, gunsmoke and a faerie garden: searching for a rare bird - 13. The Garden Route. A post-apocalyptic gateway, a man with a theodolite eye and a very small flag: searching for the real Garden Route - 14. Nieu Bethesda. An Owl House, a camel yard and a stream of fossils: searching for South Africa's geo-psychic centre - 15. Swartburg Pass and De Hell. A bone-jarring passage, hard people and even harder wood: searching hard for a forgotten valley - 16. Cape Point. Fearsome wind, a ghost ship and a bay of plenty: searching for a paradise, almost lost - 17. West Coast Fossil Park. Four-tusked elephants, giant giraffes, and an African bear: searching for a paradise lost - 18. The Heerenlogement. A cave, a chisel and a wagon road: searching for fabled kingdoms - 19. Karoo petroglyphs. Bushman songs, broken strings and stories that sing on the wind: searching for sacred rocks in the Karoo - 20. Sutherland. High plains, clear skies and starry, starry nights: searching for bright objects and dark matter.
Summary:
"Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known places in South Africa. Who knew that on the West Coast, just an hour's drive from Cape Town, is one of only three places on earth where you can see the fossils of creatures that lived in antediluvian times and died right where you see them now? Or that all Bushman art, whether painted or engraved, is a conversation with the spirit world? Bristow ventured to some lesser-known or visited places such as the West Coast Fossil Park, Mapungubwe, Hogsback, Lambazi Bay, Port Grosvenor, and Nieu Bethesda. Some old favourites also, like the Garden Route, Kruger National Park, Cape Point and the Johannesburg war museum - but they each get a new treatment. Written in the same engaging style as his last successful book, The Game Ranger, the Knife, the Lion and the Sheep in the Stories from the Veld series, Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes is a journey through a bucket list of must-see places in this "world in one country."--Publisher's description.
Series:
Stories from the veld ; II Bristown, David. Stories from the veld ; 2.
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