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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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Dervla Murphy
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Overlook TP, Flamingo, John Murray
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780719557897
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