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THE HEALING LAND
A KALAHARI JOURNEY
Rupert Isaacson
This edition first published in 2002
First published in Great Britain in 2001 by
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For the Ancestors
Circling, circling …
I have entered the airy, dancing lightness of love.
Rumi
Contents
Part Two: The Mantis, The Mouse and The Bird
Part Three: The Good Little Donkeys
9 Revelations at the Red House
In the beginning, so my mother told me, were the Bushmen – peaceful, golden-skinned hunters whom people also called KhoiSan or San. They had lived in Africa longer than anyone else. Africa was also where we were from; my South African mother and Rhodesian father