New Creation

A novel that explores the soul of the African Wilds along with one of the great issues of our time: the conflict between materialistic and spiritual world views.

Here is a novel that explores the soul of the African wilds, along with one of the great issues of our time: the conflict between materialistic and spiritual worldviews. It plumbs the turbulent experiences of an African missionary’s son who leaves the mission for the life of a game ranger. Unforeseen events involving reserve staff, visitors and the primeval African wilds overturn and revolutionise his thinking. Under the spell of an intense love affair he leaves the reserve as a new kind of missionary, fired by the possibilities of mankind to pioneer a new level of understanding and existence, a new creation, a new evolutionary stage in harmony with all life.
 

About the Author

John Poynton is Professor Emeritus of biology at the University of Natal, South Africa, a research associate of the Natural History Museum, London, and a scientific fellow of the Zoological Society of London.  His main research has been in African zoology and biogeography; he has also published in the philosophy of science and in psychical research.  He served on the council of the South African Society for Psychical Research, and subsequently served on the council of the Society for Psychical Research in London, where he was the Hon. Secretary.

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