Happy Sad Land

Mark McCrum (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

1994
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85619-230-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1977, at the age of 18, Mark McCrum went to Southern Africa to wash dishes and teach English at a new multi-racial school in the fledgling republic of Botswana. He found his hitch-hiking trips round neighbouring South Africa - then at the height of the apartheid regime - profoundly affecting and confusing. 15 years later he returns. The all-white Referendum has just taken place, transition to black Government is being negotiated, Boipatong is yet to happen. McCrum embarks on a journey that is to take him from Crossroads township to the splendours of Johannesburg's Northern Suburbs. On the way he meets people as diverse as a Cape Town down-and-out and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He returns to a Botswana which has chnaged almost beyond recognition and where his ex-pupils have developed in a variety of surprising ways. South Africa is often considered a subject too complex for comprehension. In this personal account, McCrum provides a slice-of-life view of a country in the throes of an historic and irreversible transition.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.1994
• Zusatzinfo: 8pp b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 162 x 241 mm
• Gewicht: 731 g
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände ► Afrika
• ISBN-10: 1-85619-230-X / 185619230X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-85619-230-9 / 9781856192309
• Zustand: Neuware