The Old Way: A Story of the First People

from Sollos

The book is structured, as I read it, into three parts. The first being the shortest, was concerned with our evolutionary past. The second, being the longest, were various topics about the Bushmen tribe Elizabeth Thomas was with. And the third was about the current, dismal, situation of the Bushm...

from Sollos

The book is structured, as I read it, into three parts. The first being the shortest, was concerned with our evolutionary past. The second, being the longest, were various topics about the Bushmen tribe Elizabeth Thomas was with. And the third was about the current, dismal, situation of the Bushm...

from Stbalbach

I first heard of the Bushmen through National Geographic's Genographic Project (Spencer Wells "The Journey of Man") which found genetic evidence suggesting Bushmen are one of the oldest, if not the oldest, peoples in the world--a "genetic Adam" from which all the worlds ethnic groups can ultimate...

from breic

Parts of this story are great, but it is mixed in with some overly romanticized dreck. Unfortunately, Thomas's strong bias means that even the great parts need to be taken with a grain of salt. Her descriptions are biased and exaggerated, and I don't know enough to determine how much is real. On ...

from LGCullens

The Old Ways Imagine a digging stick as more important to humankind's existence than a mobile phone. Without an experienced frame of reference, many in today's world would brush aside the thought. Mentally, in our hubristic mind-set, we've pretty much removed ourselves from the natural world tha...