Description
Signed, First Edition Hardback, 1985
Dervla Murphy’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. When she first pedalled across the Limpopo she fancied that she understood South Africa’s problems because for more than 40 years she had – from a distance – taken a particular interest in them. Within 12 hours of her journey that illusion was shattered. This journal reflects her moods of confusion and elation, hope and disappointment as she tries to come to terms with a country even more complex and shattered – but also more flexible – than she had expected. As she records her quite often contradictory reactions to the new South Africa, Dervla Murphy’s journal records how she came to love the new South Africa.
‘A travel writer of rare heart and freshness’
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