The Old Way: A Story of the First People

"Wise and loving," an acclaimed author "helps us see as these gentle people do and takes us with her through their endangered, fragile environment" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots—and the roots of life as we know it

When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surv...