The waterbearer
By: Dianne Hofmeyr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction.; Water -- Fiction.; Dowsing -- Fiction.; Shona (African people) -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction.; Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city) -- Fiction.; Africa, Eastern -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When a storm capsizes their boat and kills his father, Maji, a young trader on the East Coast of Africa in the fourteenth century, is captured and taken inland to the city of Great Zimbabwe, where he discovers a talent for divining underground water.