Title: The waterbearer
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Dowsing, Coming of age, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Shona (African people), Water, Survival, fiction, Africa, fiction
Places: Africa, Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city), Eastern Africa
Time periods: 14th century, To 1498
LC classification: PZ7.H6797 Wat 2001