The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, killarneybooks [64862402], Inagh, CLARE, Ireland.
Hardcover, x + 420pp + 16 pages of glossy b&w plates, /Xam and !Xun names & glossary & a guide to pronunciation & references and notes & index, NOT ex-library. Weight: 0.67kg / 1.48lb. Interior in very good condition: clean, bright, untanned, with firm binding and unmarked text: no writing, no highlighting of any kind. External age-spotting affecting upper outer page edges. Dust jacket is untorn, with short creases and white scuffed marks around edges, price blacked-out on front flap (jacket's not clipped). A barcode sticker on inner panel of rear flap. -- The Xam people were a South African tribe who lived in the scrubland and communicated in a distinct click language. During the nineteenth century they were labelled as sub-human and hunted as animals by the Boers and the British. In 1870's Cape Town, a German philologist, Wilhelm Bleek, and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, befriended some Xam bushmen and gradually began to document their language, resulting in an extraordinary archive of material. This is the story of Wilhelm and Lucy and of the discovered Xam culture of beautiful rock art and powerful fables. The fables will run throughout the book. -- Contents: Map : Southern Africa in the late nineteenth century; At the confluence of the Senqu and the Qaqa; The first at Sitting People were those who first inhabited the earth; !Khwe // na s'o !kwe: the early race; Kaggen, the eland, the meerkats and the moon; Kaggen: the mantis; How the approach of a commando is foretold by the mist; K'au: commando; Kabbo's journey in the railway train (from Mowbray to Cape Town and back); Xara-//kam: the bitterpits; Kaggen and the ticks; !Gi:xa: 'sorcerer'; The man who shot the rain; !Khwa: the ram; The two brothers of the early race who hunted lions; !Khwe a tsu !kung-so: the north wind; The origin of death; Nu !ke: the dead; The dream which Dia!kwain had before he heard of the death of his father; Xam-ka-!ke-ta !gwe: 'the Bushman's Letters'; The sending of the crows; Kukummi: things told; The broken string; 'This is no bushman painting. This is great art'; The Bushman dies, he goes to this place; Where is Kaggen?; A:kumm and the lion; !Kau-/nunu: Kenhardt, Books.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
London: Viking, 2004 black cloth, illus dj, v slight rubbing to extrems, 420pp, b/w photos & illus, The Xam people were a South African tribe who lived in the scrubland and communicated in a distinct click language. During the nineteenth century they were labelled as sub-human and hunted as animals by the Boers and the British. In 1870's Cape Town, a German philologist, Wilhelm Bleek, and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, befriended some Xam bushmen and gradually began to document their language, resulting in an extraordinary archive of material. This is the story of Wilhelm and Lucy and of the discovered Xam culture of beautiful rock art and powerful fables. The fables will run throughout the book. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 140x220mm.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Cathy`s Deals.
The first people of South Africa, Stone-Age hunters and gatherers from the mountains and the arid flats of the interior, did not survive the arrival of settlers from Europe. Within decades an ancient world of sorcerers, hunters and artists was lost forever, along with the stories they told. We would know next to nothing of their myths, their beliefs or the rituals that governed their lives if it were not for six bushmen, five of whom had been sentenced to hard labour in a Cape Town prison in 1869. Released into the country home of a Prussian linguist and his English born sister-in-law, they were invited to teach their language and to share a previously unknown world on the verge of extinction. Over the next 18 years they worked together to capture this lost world of myths, songs, pictures and moving personal histories. The notebooks answer questions about ancient rock art and describe the awful tragedy of a vanished people. Paperback, Label: Penguin Books Ltd, Penguin Books Ltd, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2005-04-28, Studio: Penguin Books Ltd, Verkaufsrang: 5257155.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
Penguin Books Ltd. Paperback. POOR. Acceptable copy with heavy wear to cover and pages. Pages have writing and or highlighting. Might be an ex-library copy and not include CD or accessories.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hippo Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Pages may have contain writing, highlighting or notes. May be an ex library copy with library markings. Dust jacket or accessories may not be included. Paperback.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books Express.
Viking. Hardcover. Good. We ship International with Tracking Number! May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! j.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, 5Boros Books, NJ, SUMMIT, [RE:4].
Some may have high-lighting or writings, some are ex-library. Hard cover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, booklab, VA, Chantilly, [RE:4].
Great customer service. You will be happy! Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books Express, NH, Portsmouth, [RE:4].
Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AwesomeBooksUK, OXON, PO BOX 318, [RE:5].
Paperback.