Laurens van der Post; Jane Taylor — Testament to the Bushmen

London, Viking, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this study of the Kalahari Bushmen from South African writers Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor, signed by both authors. First edition. Signed and inscribed by both authors to the title page, dated 23rd October 1984. Illustrated with forty-eight pages of colour photographs. Bearing witness to the plight of the Kalahari Bushmen, the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. In the long meditation with which this volume is concluded we see the Bushmen as both a delightful, intelligent people in danger of destruction and, more profoundly, as 'frontier scouts' on the border of the unconscious. Written by Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist, and Jane Taylor, a South African writer, playwright and academic. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear and light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.