3.5 billion years of South African history condensed into 18,000 words and 140 pictures. In this unique potted history, Francis Wilson takes you from prehistoric times when dinosaurs infinitely older than the Jurassic juveniles ruled the subcontinent, to the time when mankind's ancestors first saw beyond the boundaries that separate the animal kingdom from humankind, to the earthbound cultures of the first peoples, to the arrival of southbound peoples from deepest Africa and the landing of pale people on the shores, to the ensuing conflicts over centuries, to the discovery of the planet's treasure trove underneath the soil, to the wealth that built modern South Africa, with all of its shadows, and to the most fabled triumph of freedom in modern history.
