The Descent
In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth...In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali ... [... more]
Random House |
The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
 This author knows his subject: After getting used to mystical experiences over the past 12 years in Botswana's Tsodilo Hills and in Bushmanland, in north-eastern Namibia, I can attest that this author has been there and seen a world that's magical beyond [... more]
CDN$13.04
Amazon CA |
Carolyn Slaughter
Carolyn Slaughter was born in New Delhi, India, and spent most of her childhood in the Kalahari Desert of what is now Botswana. Soon after leaving Africa in 1961, she wrote what would later become her highly acclaimed novel In this unforgettable ... [... more]
Random House |
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
From Amazon.com: Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African [... more]
CDN$15.95
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The Yardstick
What a page-turner!: One of the elements that I most enjoy about this author's work is her uncanny ability to be topical to the extent that her works are almost prophetic. Years ago, before Sputniks, and, much later, a movie about the thawing of a frozen [... more]
CDN$28.04
Amazon CA |
Kalahari Bushman Healers with CDROM
Incisive testimonials by a score of traditional healers: The Kalahari desert area is a rather large region mostly encompassed by the modern nation of Botswana, in southern Africa. There exist a number of tribal constituencies, collectively referred to [... more]
CDN$59.95
Amazon CA |
Skeleton Coast_-LP
Heart-Pounding, Non-Stop Action Complemented by High-Tech Hardware and Guts: What do you want in an adventure story? If you're like me, you want lots of exciting action that's unexpected. You also want to be dazzled by advanced weapons and defenses. In [... more]
CDN$33.06
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Skeleton Coast
Heart-Pounding, Non-Stop Action Complemented by High-Tech Hardware and Guts: What do you want in an adventure story? If you're like me, you want lots of exciting action that's unexpected. You also want to be dazzled by advanced weapons and defenses. In [... more]
CDN$38.07
Amazon CA |
Cry of the Kalahari
Spectacular and IMPORTANT: The book is a true masterpiece. Moving, funny and heartbreaking. People need to read this to see what animals truly face in the wild, and how we make their lives even more difficult. Its an eye opening account of how we must [... more]
CDN$18.50
Amazon CA |
About Blady: A Pattern Out of Time
From Amazon.com: In 1991, five years before he died, South Africa-born writer and amateur ethnographer Sir Laurens van der Post took a long look at his life and the small details that resonated over time. Among the things he recalls in this luminous book [... more]
CDN$16.67
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Duma
A boy, his cheetah, and a stranger in the Kalhari Desert of South Africa: I readily admit that I am not a big animal lover, but director Carroll Ballard has made a solid example of a movie in which a boy grows up because of his relationship with the [... more]
CDN$9.93
Amazon CA |
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
Healing Really Does Make Our Hearts Happy: Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy is a beautifully written and photographed book of the Jul'hoansi people of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. Not only does the book give an excellent description of the [... more]
CDN$48.00
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