Title:
The reader's companion to South Africa
Author:
Ryan, Alan, 1943-
ISBN:
9780156005586
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1999.
Physical Description:
xviii, 310 p. : map ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"A Harvest original."
"Some of the best travel writing ever collected about the richly diverse mother lode of the African continent"--Cover.
Contents:
Port Natal and Pietermaritzburg: 1850 / G. H. Mason -- Durban, Johannesburg, Kimberley: 1896 / Mark Twain -- The Orange Free State in ruins: 1902 / J. Ramsay MacDonald -- Johannesburg, a laundry empire, and the Cullinan Diamond: ca. 1910 / E. Alexander Powell -- Victoria Falls: 1923 / Frank G. Carpenter -- The Cape Peninsula and Cape Town: late 1930s / A. W. Wells -- A meeting with D. F. Malan and recruiting miners in Ovamboland: 1940 / Negley Farson -- Pietermaritzburg, Durban, Zululand: 1947 / H. V. Morton -- Johannesburg and a gold mine: late 1940s / Martin Flavin -- Durban: 1958 / Jan Morris -- Kruger National Park and Swaziland: 1956 / Alan Moorehead -- Johannesburg, Kruger National Park, Cape Town: 1964 / Ilka Chase -- The Blue Train from Cape Town to Victoria Falls: 1979 / Michael Wood -- South Africa: 1986 / P. J. O'Rourke -- Summer Folk: 1988 / Adam Hochschild -- Pretoria, Johannesburg, Soweto, a gold mine, and the Blue Train to Cape Town: 1991 / Michael Palin.
A black American watches apartheid fall: ca. 1990 / Eddy L. Harris -- Cape Town townships: 1995 / Laura Resnick -- Looking at the future from 1997 / J. Mark Mobius.
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