Into the Past: A Memoir by Phillip Tobias (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED, DATED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR,   Picador Africa, 2005, hardcover, illustrated, index, 277 pages, condition: basically as new.

Phillip Tobias was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He was also an activist for the eradication of apartheid and gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences. Tobias excavated at the Sterkfontein caves and worked at almost all other major sites in Southern Africa after 1945. He also opened some 25 archaeological sites in Botswana during the French Panhard-Capricorn Expedition while conducting a biological survey of the Tonga People of Zimbabwe.

Tobias is one of South Africa's most honoured and decorated scientists, and a world leading expert on human prehistoric ancestors; he has been nominated three times for a Nobel Prize, received a dozen honorary doctorates and been awarded South Africa's Order for Meritorious Service. Tobias published over 600 journal articles and authored or co-authored 33 books and edited or co-edited eight others.

 In this autobiographical work Tobias recounts the first 40 years of his life through anecdotes, experiences and philosophies.

                                                                                         ALSO INCLUDED ARE SEVEN NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS RELATING TO TOBIAS.