Heart of dryness : how the last bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought /: how the last bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought. ([2009])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James G. Workman.
• Authors: Workman, James G
• Contents: Kalahari rivals -- Crossing the threshold -- Intransigent eve -- The desiccation of Eden -- Besieged and besieger -- The rule of water -- Dispersal -- Forage or farm? -- Quest for meat -- Survival of the driest -- Water for elephants only -- The paradox of bling -- Oriented against the sun -- Cradling every drop -- The reckoning -- Haggling over the source of all life -- Human rights, water wrongs -- Primal instincts and the realpolitik of water -- Intimations of genocide -- Escalation of terrorist activity -- An open heart -- Release -- The verdict -- The end of the beginning -- What would Bushmen do?
• Publisher Details: New York : Walker & Company
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.896/1; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; San (African people) -- Social conditions; San (African people) -- Government relations; San (African people) -- Land tenure; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Kalahari Desert; Droughts -- Kalahari Desert; Desert ecology -- Kalahari Desert; Water conservation -- Kalahari Desert; Desert ecology; Droughts; Ecology; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology; San (African people) -- Government relations; San (African people) -- Land tenure; San (African people) -- Social conditions; Social conditions; Water conservation; Science -- General; Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning; Kalahari Desert -- Social conditions; Kalahari Desert -- Environmental conditions; Africa -- Kalahari Desert; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780802719614; 0802719619
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
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