South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa By Dervla Murphy

South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa By Dervla Murphy

Hardcover

ISBN 0719557895

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd 1997

Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Dated and ex libris on the first page by the previous owner.

Dervla Murphy's journal of her cycle tours of South Africa in 1994 gives a day-by-day view of that period.

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.