1979 first edition large format hardcover with 311 pages in good condition. The dust jacket has slight wear around edges. Bushmen, Hottentots, Xhosa, Ovambo, Venda, Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Lobedu, Herero, Swazi, Pondo, Shona...

Sought after Africana with stories of witches, witchdoctors, mystics, ghosts, mermaids and mermen, shape-shifters, myths of the mountains, rivers, waterfalls and forests. Contains many colour & b&w illustrations. 'There is no part of the world with a richer mythology than Southern Africa. ... Stone-age Bushmen, copper-age Hottentots, iron-age Karanga, Sotho-Tswana, Nguni, Herero and Ovambo; yellow people, brown, chocolate, burnt umber, black, white; people from Africa, Asia and Europe - Melanesia, Indonesia, Arabia, India, Holland, Germany, France and Britain - all have contributed unique fantasies, dream people and monstrous creatures to the strange assembly of African ghosts.' (Introduction, p. 7).