Lone Cone Library

An epic comedy of absurd proportions. An empty Coke bottle drops from the sky near an African San hunter, Xixo, and is brought into his camp, but after causing much trouble to the group, he tries to return the bottle to the gods who must have dropped it.

"In the southern Kalahari area of Botswana-an arid landscape of legends that speak of lost cities, hidden wealth, and ancient gods-a fractious ranger named Monzo is found dying from a severe head wound in a dry ravine. Three Bushmen surround the doomed man, but are they his killers or there to help? Detective David Kubu Bengu is on the case, an investigation that his old school friend Khumanego claims is motivated by racist antagonism on the part...

An introduction to the natural wonders of the desert and two peoples who live there, the San and the Tuareg.

Francois saves Xhabbo's life and is schooled in Bushman culture. Xhabba teaches him the methods needed to survive the violence of contemporary Africa.

"This book, by an archaeologist, an historian, an anthropologist and a school teacher, introduces the long history and current condition of the hunting people of southern Africa to a wide range of students, teachers and interested readers. It attempts to place the modern Bushmen, or San, in historical context and to show how they have continually adapted to outside pressures which, even today, are forcing them to fit into the modern states of Namibia...

In order to have light, Kwian and the other children throw another villager, the lazy Kattenttu, into the sky where he becomes the sun.

The author recounts his experiences on an expedition in the Kalahari region of Botswana and describes some of the different animals found there.