{"id":3621,"date":"2009-08-19T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:22:50","slug":"heart-of-dryness-a-new-book-and-interview-from-james-g-workman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2009\/08\/19\/heart-of-dryness-a-new-book-and-interview-from-james-g-workman\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Dryness: A New Book and Interview from James G. Workman"},"content":{"rendered":"
Heart of Dryness<\/em>, a new book by James G. Workman, is a nonfiction narrative that examines the growing world water crisis against the backdrop of the struggle and survival of Africa’s Bushmen in the face of water scarcity and perpetual drought.<\/p>\n Workman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book is an account of his journey to interview and meet the Bushmen who live in Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kalahari Desert and live in extreme heat with little available water. He begins with a story about Botswana government trucks dismantling and destroying the government pump and reservoirs that the thousand remaining Bushmen had used and the refusal of the Bushmen to leave the land.<\/p>\n