The waterbearer

By Dianne Hofmeyr

Subjects: Coming of age, Water, Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Juvenile fiction, Dowsing, History, Shona (African people)

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.