Bliksem: Travels with a South African Dog

"For years, I'd heard spark-eyed stories of Bliksem-my father's rapturous, fantastic tales of this wild, legendary, noble little savage of a dog. the truth is that dogs are the unfettered manifestations of the joyous, free-romping, utterly present state that we all long so mightily to be in. For my dad, Bliksem was this manifestation. Constrained and burdened from an early age by the religious piety of his well-meaning parents, Dad decided early on to reject the cold darkness of that worried world, and to step out into the clear, golden light of an adventurous life-to Africa, to Europe, and the great beyond.