In The Heart of a Hunter Laurens van der Post takes up the store he began in The Lost World of the Kalahari, his stirring account of his search in the scorching interior for the last of the Bushmen. In that book he described their vanishing pattern of life; here he explores the very sources of the Bushmen's spirit and imagination – their dreams and stories, the legends that guide them and inspire them in their daily battles with that harshest of environments, the Kalahari.