Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam

by Julia Blackburn

Book Overview

A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess. In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the /Xam. Throughout the nineteenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787332179
• ISBN13: 9781787332171
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.