South category: 6019 books
The Impossible Machine
A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding...
by Martin Bossenbroek
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things: the first media war, a precursor of the First and Second World Wars, the originator of apartheid. The difference in status and resources between the superpower Great Britain and...
by Mary E Trimble
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Sailing with Impunity covers a 14-month, 13,000-mile adventure with Mary and Bruce Trimble from Seattle to legendary South Pacific Islands and home again. From magical sights and scents of their first tropical island landfall to the bustling, colorful Tahitian markets. From sudden midnight squalls...
by Ali Bacher
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
South Africa has produced more great cricket all-rounders than any other country. A century ago there was Jimmy Sinclair, the first man from any country to score a century and take six wickets in an innings in a Test match; and Aubrey Faulkner, still the only man with a Test batting average over 40...
Craig’s Letters to Newspapers
A collection of my letters to the editor and various others: First ("Baby") Steps on The Writing Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Craig’s Letters to Newspapers
My various letters to newspapers and others ...mainly in South Africa
First Steps on the writing journey:
A collection of my letters (from my album) that started me out on “the writing journey”
A collection of my letters to the editor and various...
Crossroads: The Choice
A Tale of Two Cities (and Countries): I know how the story began...but don't know how the story will end...
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
Crossroads (The Choice)
by craig lock
Crossroads: A new e-book (er, sorry, “vook/fook” = ebook + videos) of reflections and memories on the strange twists and turns that is the incredible and fascinating journey of life…
Man is made or unmade by himself.
By the right...
Darwin Slept Here
Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
**This entertaining combination of history, biography, and travel adventure is “a bracingly fresh portrait [of] Darwin . . . Nothing less than exhilarating” (Michael Pollan, New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma).
One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, Eric Simons...
by Mark Salvatore
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Imagine a remote community in Paraguay, South America, where you read by candle light, draw your water from a well, cook your meals on an open fire and attend to your needs in a rickety outhouse. To reach the nearest bus stop and telephone requires a long hike along a road rutted by ox carts that...
by Alastair Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
'Like its predecessor, the book is notable for its dash and enthusiasm, coupled with the photographer's instinct for the exotic and eccentric.' Sunday Times
'…another compelling bit of reading.' The Oxford Times
Here is the sequel to Alastair Scott's highly acclaimed Scot Free, which left...
The Wonder Trail
True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack...
Classic Carolina Road Trips from Columbia
Historic Destinations & Natural Wonders
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Columbia, South Carolina, sits in a perfect position--each of the numerous treasures of the Palmetto State is less than a day's drive from the capital. Near Charleston, 137 miles from Columbia, you can enjoy more than seventeen thousand square feet of shade from the iconic Angel Oak. In Blackville, 49...
Fly Fishing the Raritan River, South Branch, New Jersey
An Excerpt from Fly Fishing the Mid-Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Fly Fishing the Raritan River, South Branch, New Jersey is an excerpt from the larger book Fly Fishing the Mid-Atlantic by Beau Beasley.
Apartheid's Festival
Contesting South Africa's National Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2003
Apartheid’s Festival highlights the conflicts and debates that surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South Africa. Taking place at the height of the apartheid era, the festival was viewed by many as an opportunity...
A Place That Matters Yet
John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
A Place That Matters Yet unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. Sara Byala, in examining...