The Kalahari

Overview

Is it possible there is a place, yet untouched by the Space Age? Along with cameraman, Warren Garth, and a ranger of the South American National Parks, Marlin Perkins visits such a place and meets it primitive inhabitants, the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. These gentle people live in the distant past, hunting with arrows they've made themselves and drawing on stone and skin surfaces. Marlin interviews the hunters at their camp and records their conversation and beautiful music. Observing the women and children as they anxiously await the hunters' return, he realizes that the gap of developmental levels around the world cannot change the basic sameness of people everywhere, even here, in this "lost world" of the Kalahari Bushmen.

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