A comprehensive, scholarly review of the Zhu people by an anthropologist who worked in the region from 1973 to 1994, this book overturns the romantic myths of the San-speaking hunters and gatherers of Southern Africa living in splendid isolation. Wilmsen has also written an impressionist account of his years in Southern Africa, "Journeys With Flies" (SAF69). It's a detailed, monumental study of the social relations, diet, work and land use by the San societies of Botswana and Namibia, an especially important work given the long-held western notions of the "Bushman."  (SAF68, $32.50)