he story of two women -- one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist -- this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung woman. Here, however, the ground has perceptably shifted. First published in 1981, Nisa served as a stirring introduction to anthropology's most basic question: Can there be true understanding between people of profoundly different cultures? Diagnosed with breast cancer, and troubled by a sense of work yet unfinished, Shostak returned to Botswana in 1989. This book tells simply and directly of her rediscovery of the !Kung people she had come to know years before.