Traces the ethnobotanical threads among the tribes and inhabitants of South Africa. “The San artist crouched in a shallow cave deep in the Bankberg mountains. He mixed his paints in an unhurried fashion – eland fat blended with crushed sandstone – his manner conveying a sense of contentment. Looking up briefly to savor the setting sun, he began to hum… before leaning across to light a small fire of twigs and acacia branches prepared before the last rays.
