Mark Twain, Jan Morris, P. J. O’Rourke, and Michael Palin are just a few of the contributors to this provocative armchair tour of South Africa, which takes us from Capetown to Soweto, from 1850 to the present. Introduction by the Editor. Map.
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Alan Ryan is a contributing editor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with titles including: The Readers Companion to Alaska.
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Interesting clips from writers who visited South Africa through time (1860 to 1997). Gives a good feel for what it was like then and now. Includes a Mark Twain entry from his diary. Great insight to the area.
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"AS WE APPROACHED THE NARROW ENTRANCE OF THE INNER BAY, A PICTURE PRESENTED ITSELF THAT APPEARED MORE LIKE THE VISION OF SOME 'FAIRY DREAM' THAN A DELIGHTFUL REALITY." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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South Africa, Cape Town, Blue Train, Table Mountain, Free State, Victoria Falls, Sea Point, Cecil Rhodes, New York, United States, Kruger National Park, Cape Flats, Kruger Park, Table Bay, Adderley Street, Lady Anne Barnard, Group Areas Act, Nelson Mandela, One City Tours, Western Deep, Boer War, British Commonwealth, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Province, Captain Potter New!
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"AS WE APPROACHED THE NARROW ENTRANCE OF THE INNER BAY, A PICTURE PRESENTED ITSELF THAT APPEARED MORE LIKE THE VISION OF SOME 'FAIRY DREAM' THAN A DELIGHTFUL REALITY." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gold reef, summer folk, groote schuur, white rhinoceros Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Cape Town, Blue Train, Table Mountain, Free State, Victoria Falls, Sea Point, Cecil Rhodes, New York, United States, Kruger National Park, Cape Flats, Kruger Park, Table Bay, Adderley Street, Lady Anne Barnard, Group Areas Act, Nelson Mandela, One City Tours, Western Deep, Boer War, British Commonwealth, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Province, Captain Potter New!
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- Pole to Pole With Michael Palin: North to South by Camel, River Raft, and Balloon (Companion to the Pbs Series) by Michael Palin on page 275, and Back Matter
- Summer Folk by Maxim Gorky on page 267, and page 268
- Life with the Zulus of Natal, South Africa (Cass Library of African Studies. Travels and Narratives, No.) by George Holditch Mason on page 1, and page 308
- Born Free by Joy Adamson on page 202, and page 207
- The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault on page 205, and page 213
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