Description
The Wind Makes Dust: Four Centuries of Travel in Southern Africa compiled by Ben Maclennan is a historical travel anthology that brings together a wide range of first-hand accounts and narratives spanning four centuries of Southern African exploration and encounter.
The collection traces the experiences of early European seafarers at the Cape and follows the evolving landscape through periods of colonial expansion, railway development, barbed-wire fencing, and pass laws. It presents a vivid and often eccentric record of the region’s past through diverse voices, including soldiers, missionaries, explorers, hunters, escaped slaves, circus performers, and indigenous storytellers.
Blending historical documentation with unusual anecdotes and rare primary-source material, the anthology offers an immersive and sometimes surprising portrait of Southern Africa’s complex travel history and cultural encounters.
