Myths legends southern africa

Southern Africa is a fantastic melting pot of human beings. This is its great fascination. Living here today are people whose culture is still in the late stone age, others who live in the iron age, and yet others belonging to the age of the atom. These are people from the east, from the west, from the north, people like the Bushmen who were here so far back that they always seem part of the sundrenched landscape. In the varied scenic setting of Southern Africa, all these people in widely different ways confronted nature, come to metaphysical terms with the wonders of the land around them, devised their own explanations, myths, legends and romances about the mystery of nature, their own beginnings, the parallel community of ghosts, demons, fairies, monsters and other creatures, good and bad, of the dream world. Edition: 1st, DW/G Publisher: ABC Press Binding: Hardcover

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1979 large hardcover with 311 pages in good condition. Dust jacket has wear around edges. R65 postage in SA.  Chapters on the Bushmen, Hottentots, Xhosa, Venda, Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Lobedu, Swazi, Pondo, Shona and the Ovambo and Herero of South West Africa Namibia.

 There's a secret hid away - Lawrence G. Green -  1981, reprint - Hard cover in very good condition -Internally clean and tight. There's a secret hid away: memories of unusual experiences and mysteries in southern Africa and African isles; strange tales and legends and unrecorded adventures; and people who crossed the author's path and left him wondering.  

Author Nick Greaves continues the ancient tradition of storytelling in this renamed and freshly jacketed edition by recounting the myths and legends of southern African tribes. Aimed at 7—12 year olds, the 19 stories in this volume introduce a magical cast of characters, from a feisty buck, greedy vultures and a bewitched crocodile to an arrogant bat and the perpetually crafty hare. The collection of tales is a delightful addition to the successful series by the author, including When Hippo was Hairy, When Lion Could Fly, When Elephant was King, and When Bat was a Bird. This product ships within 3-5 working days.