South from the Limpopo: Travels Through South Africa - Hardcover

Murphy, Dervla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879519487 ISBN 13: 9780879519483

Publisher: Overlook Books, 1999

Synopsis

Dervla Murphy's has been recording her travel experiences -- treks through (among other places) India, Ireland, Transylvania, and several countries in Africa -- for well over thirty years. In Sour from the Limpopo, she continues her writings on the African continent, bringing her unique insights to the still-troubled country of South Africa.

This three-part journey of more than 6000 miles (before during, and after the elections of 1994) took Murphy through all nine provinces of the new South Africa. She stayed in remote impoverished ex-"homeland" villages, the luxurious homes of rich whites and the simple homes of poor whites. In the vast black township of Khayelitsha she made good friends, as she did among the rural Boers of the platteland.

About this title

Review:

‘A travel writer of rare heart and freshness’
Observer

Book Description:

The author's journal of her cycle tours of South Africa, before, during, and after the transfer of power in 1994, gives a day-by-day view of that momentous period. As she records her quite often contradictory reactions to the country, the journal records how she came to love the new South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879519487
• ISBN 13: 9780879519483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432