Old Way A Story of the First People

Name: Old Way A Story of the First People
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ISBN: 9780312427283

ISBN-10: 031242728X

ISBN-13: 9780312427283

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Authors: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Elizabeth Marshal Thomas

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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer societies on earth, and discovers among them an essential link to the origins of all human society. nbsp; Humans lived for 1,500 centuries as roving clans, adapting daily to changes in environment and food supply, living for the most part like their animal ancestors. Those origins are not so easily abandoned, Thomas suggests, and our modern society has plenty still to learn from the Bushmen. nbsp; Through her vivid, empathic account, Thomas…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Gray grew up on a farm near York, Nebraska, not far from the land her great-grandparents homesteaded in 1869.Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is a noted anthropologist and is also the author of "The Hidden Life of Dogs" (Pocket 1996), "The Tribe of Tiger", "The Harmless People", "Warrior Herdsmen", & the novels "Certain Poor Shepherds", "Reindeer Moon", & "The Animal Wife". She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire and the Boston area.