The distinguished explorer and writer recounts his rediscovery of the Bushmen,
outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. Faced with constant attack from all the
peoples who followed them, the last of the Bushmen have retreated to the
scorching depths of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. After a gruelling
trek, van der Post finds the Bushmen, thriving in one of the world’s most
inhospitable landscapes, with their physical peculiarities, their cave art and
their joyful music-making intact.