Hofmeyr, Dianne

The waterbearer / Dianne Hofmeyr. - 1st ed. - Cape Town, South Africa : Tafelberg, 2001. - 144 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

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.

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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.

PZ7.H6797 / Wat 2001

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