George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts- poet, historian, ethnographer and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquinted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock art paintings in the caves and shelters of the South African interior.

Enchanted and absorbed by them, Stow set out to create a record of this creative work of the people who had tracked and marked the South African lanscape decades  and centuries before him. Unconquerable Spirit reveals for the first time the beauty and scope of his labours.

About the author

Pippa Skotnes was educated at the University of Cape Town, where she is now Professor of Fine Art and director of the Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and exhibition Centre (LLAREC). She studied both fine art and archaeology and has published essays on the rock art of the San. She is the author and editor of several books, including Sound from the thinking strings (1991), Miscast: Negotiating the presence of the Bushmen (1996), which accompanied a major exhibition on the colonial history of the San at the South African National Gallery, and Heaven’s things (1999). She has also published a number of artist’s books including Lamb of God, which is, in part, a narrative inscribed on the bones of horses. Her work has been exhibited in many different parts of the world.

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