Dreaming the KarooDreaming the Karoo by Julia Blackburn is a spellbinding new book by the much acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the Xam. This haunting book explores the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess. In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the Xam.