Kalahari Dreaming: The Romance of the Desert

By David Hilton-Barber

"Kalahari--what a beautiful word. It rolls off the tongue with satisfying ease, seeming to apply distance. A great wilderness of waving grasses, humming with grasshopper song under a hot wind and a sky of vibrant blue." --Rupert Isaacson, The Healing Land But at my back I always hear Time's wing?d chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. --Andrew Marvell (1621-78) Oh that the desert were my dwelling place, With only one fair spirit for my minister. That I might forget the human race, And hating no one, love her only. --Lord Byron For hundreds of years the vast territory of the Kalahari remained a blank on the map. Yet it gripped the imagination of poets, painters, writers, dreamers, adventurers and not a few charlatans. This book is a whimsical anthology of those who were inspired by this desert, those who lived in its bitter confines and those who died in its dry embrace.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 062059571X
• ISBN13: 9780620595711
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.8"