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Walking to Australia - 21st Century Excursions into Humanity's Greatest Migration (Paperback)
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Walking to Australia - 21st Century Excursions into Humanity's Greatest Migration (Paperback)
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Loot Price R546
Discovery Miles 5 460
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The book describes a 21st century journey following the direction
taken by anatomically modern humans who left the African nursery
around 80000 years ago and reached Australia 20000 years later.
Along the way, they laid the genetic foundations for humanity's
oldest civilizations - and ultimately inhabited every corner of the
globe. The result of these travels is not a scientific treatise.
Although the science is not ignored, the centre lies elsewhere. The
author undertakes this west-to-east endeavor in the imagined
company of his autistic grandson, who serves both as confidant and
as a human archetype. This allows the book to verge upon a unique
blend of factual travel writing and an almost magical internalised
interpretation. What the two travellers find together is a tangle
of new experiences and responses, from which the linkages between
primeval past and complex present gradually emerge. Here is a work
of literary travel writing that describes an enchanted journey
through some of the ancient places of the world and into the
currently deeply troubled heart of the human adventure. The
evidence encountered on the journey suggests that a fundamental
universality of humanity's place in the cosmos lies beneath all
regional differences and is characterised as much by humility and
co-operation as it is by the imperative to survive and/or the will
to power. The book does not set out to prove a point, however, but
to celebrate the complexity of human responses. It is more a
creative work than it is a dissertation with an unambiguous
conclusion. Nevertheless, the bibliography gives an indication of
some of the sources used, which includes the work of historians,
archaeologists, political scientists, biographers and
psychologists, as well as authors writing on the various religions
of the world.
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