Lightning Bird One Man’s Journey Into Africa’s Past by Lyall Watson
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Lightning Bird One Man’s Journey Into Africa’s Past by Lyall Watson. In 1955, a sixteen-year-old Englishman named Adrian Boshier ven-tured-alone, equipped only with a pocket knife and a bag of salt-into the African bush, where he spent the next two decades unearthing a past rich with answers for the present. Hailed by The New York Times as "an engrossing introduction to the poetic dignity of the Stone Age mind," Lightning Bird is the true story of one man's journey into a world unchanged since it was first described a century ago by Livingstone and Selous. "The stuff that myths are made of," writes Kirkus Reviews of this account of the "man of the spirit"-a name given to Boshier by African natives for both his susceptibility to epileptic fits and his uncanny ability to handle deadly snakes. Here is the extraordinary saga of Boshier's struggle to survive in a dangerous land, and of the search, seemingly directed by supernatural events, that led him before his death at age thirty-nine to discoveries that have helped to rewrite Stone Age history. In the tradition of Thor Heyerdahl and Carlos Castaneda, author Lyall Watson presents a true adventure of the human spirit, a unique story of man, magic and culture, and an absorbing firsthand account of the real Africa.
