Tells the story of a decade of dialogue between two pioneering colonial scholars, Dr Wilhelm Bleek and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, and five Bushmen from the Cape Town Breakwater Prison, who were allowed to live with the Bleek family in their suburban Victorian home.

This book tells the extraordinary story of a decade of dialogue between two pioneering colonial scholars, Dr Wilhelm Bleek and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, and five Bushmen from the Cape Town Breakwater Prison, who were allowed to live with the Bleek family in their suburban Victorian home.