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Monday, a cold wind is blowing outside, snow on the Cape Mountains, with the weather threatening to get colder during the week. I must admit that getting up on winter mornings is not one of my favourite things.
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1). Once We Were Hunters – A Journey with Africa’s Indigenous People by Paul Weinberg. I remember one of my earliest memories was seeing “Bushmen” at the Van Riebeeck festival in 1952, I was only five years old but the memory remains. From an early age I had an interest in the San, their strange clicking language and their almost supernatural powers in tracking animals. The South African Defence Force used them as trackers during the Bushwar.
2). The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The story that sold over two million copies. A young boy in Afghanistan is in a Kite fighting contest, the Russians arrive and Amir and his family have to escape to America but Amir knows that he must return to an Afghanistan under the Taliban.
3). Uniforms of the World – Army, Navy & Airforce Uniforms 1700-1937 by Richard Knotel, Herbert Knotel and Herbert Sieg. A hefty book with lots of line illustrations with a vast amount of information covering the said time period.
4). The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa – The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama. Lobsang Rampa, actually Cyril Henry Hoskin (8 April 1910 – 25 January 1981). His books had a cult following, I think most of us who are over 40 would have read one of his books at some time. He published 18 if I am not mistaken, when called out by the British press as a charlatan he claimed to have the spirit of the said lama living in him. The book was just right for the flower power generation it certainly raised interest in Buddhist philosophy and things occult, which were his own peculiar blend of belief.
5), South African Forces World War 11. Volume 1V. Eagles Strike. The campaigns of the South African Air Force in Egypt, Cyrenaica, Libya, Tunisia, Tripolitania and Madagascar 1941-1943. A rare book these days written by James Ambrose Brown, it will appeal to our local war historians.
This is number five in my "Books across my table" series, please follow, upvote and resteem if you like this blog.
