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The Tuesday Morning Book Club meets in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library on the FIRST Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m.
For the month of November, the group will be reading Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van der Post. If you would like to join a book club session or would like more information, please email Nora Curry at ncurry@librarycamden.org. New members are always welcome!
Summary of Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van der Post: This is a story of an almost vanished Africa; a world of myth and magic in which the indigenous peoples of the continent lived for uncountable centuries before the Europeans came to shatter it. The main character is a boy who has a relationship with this Africa not unlike Kipling’s Kim with the antique world of India. François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa three hundred years ago, lives as a solitary child on his father’s farm, ‘Hunter’s Drift’. Here, in the far interior of Africa, he experiences the wonder and mystery of an ageless, natural primitive life, his perception of it heightened by the influence of three people in particular – his Bushman nurse, the head herdsman of the local Matabele clan (his father’s chosen partners in the pioneering of Hunter’s Drift), and a hunter of legendary fame, now the chief ranger of a vast game reserve nearby.