reinicio (extractos)

this is the story of a journey in a great wasteland and a search for some pure remnant of the unique and almost vanished first people of my native land, the bushmen of africa.

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perhaps this life of ours, which begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child, needs a clear image of some child-man, like the bushman, wherein the two are firmly and lovingly joined in order that our confused hearts may stay at the centre of their brief round of departure and return.

l. van der post, "the lost world of the kalahari"