Frontiers: Evolution of South African Society and Its Central Tragedy, the Agony of the Xhosa People: Noel Mostert. 1993.

“When one rounds the Cape of Good Hope, sailing eastwards, one passes immediately, as if across a distinct line drawn upon the sea, from one coastal and climatic realm to another, from the barren or semi-arid littoral of the southern subcontinent to the green, moist, vividly beautiful eastern coastline; from the icy Atlantic to the warm, effervescent Indian Ocean. Blue-grey mountains fold across one another, and tumble down to surf-strewn boulders, or accompany long white beaches. Nowhere else on earth, I believe, do sea and sky, walled granite and shining sand, convey any impression of nature more placidly reposeful, more grandly and anciently benign. ”

“One bright fall morning our alpha male, fat with the summer’s largess, his nostrils filled with the scents of earth, wolf, fungus, squirrel droppings and matted leaves, gets it in his mind to sing. At first he tests the air with a thin, silvery whine, and when he finds it good he wags his tail, points his muzzle at the sky, and lets loose a full-throated howl. With lips drawn back and eyes shut, he shapes his notes with his cheek muscles and lets them fall like long, floating streamers flung from the branches of the tallest spruce. Immediately the silvery-brown beta wolf hops up from his leaf bed. As the alpha’s song rises again, the beta joins in, a few intervals above, the two howls curling into each other but not touching, the sounds threaded and looped between each other’s overtones. Now more of the pack picks up the mood, and a half dozen muzzles point at the drifting clouds above., all flinging their songs up in a burst of wailing joy. For a full two minutes the howls possess the sky, and as the notes fall they stir the hills for miles around with a tingling presence, as if it were the spirit of the wilderness itself that had spoken and left its breath on every leaf.”

More books on this general topic can be found in the Human -> Origins section.

“In 1932 five men set out to investigate. They found a number of gold ornaments similar to those discovered in Zimbabwe. The discovery reported to the University of Pretoria, and experts soon confirmed the archaeological value of the remains of the richness of the site.”