MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA - PENNY MILLER, FIRST EDITION

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA - PENNY MILLER, 1979 FIRST EDITION, 311 PAGES, IN GOOD CONDITION, HARDCOVER COMPLETE INTACT DUST JACKET UNDER PLASTIC PROTECTOR, WITH SOME AGE RELATED WEAR. PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME AND INSCRIPTION IN BOOK. 

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).