Pale Ghosts
Jeremy Harding, 12 January 1995
The Electronic Elephant: A Southern African Journey
by Dan Jacobson.
Hamish Hamilton, 373 pp., £17.99, June 1994,0 241 13355 6 Show More
by Dan Jacobson.
Hamish Hamilton, 373 pp., £17.99, June 1994,
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Little, Brown, 630 pp., £20, November 1994,0 316 90965 3 Show More
Little, Brown, 630 pp., £20, November 1994,
None to Accompany Me
by Nadine Gordimer.
Bloomsbury, 324 pp., £15.99, September 1994,0 7475 1821 1 Show More
by Nadine Gordimer.
Bloomsbury, 324 pp., £15.99, September 1994,
The Rift: The Exile Experience of South Africans
by Hilda Bernstein.
Cape, 516 pp., £25, February 1994,0 224 03546 0 Show More
by Hilda Bernstein.
Cape, 516 pp., £25, February 1994,
“... great resemblance between his own, open-ended journey and the intrusions of earlier strangers: of Robert Moffat, Livingstone and various envoys of the London Missionary Society, who thrived on scruples; of Cecil Rhodes, and an assortment of English and Boer traders, who did without them; of the Voortrekkers, who left the Cape in sombre spirits and travelled ... ”