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Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this...
History Matters
Selected Writings, 1970–2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
History Matters is an eloquent selection of writings over four decades by Bill Nasson, one of South Africa’s most popular and highly respected historians. The pieces in this compendium are lively and entertaining, written with wit, humour and a finely tuned sense of irony. Chapters cover the South...
The Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain
1820 Settler
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up view of four decades during a period when the British Empire was expanding in southern Africa, with the...
On the Bridge of Goodbye
The Story of South Africa's discarded San Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Set against the southern African canvas of war and upheaval, On the Bridge of Goodbye tells the story of the famous San (Bushman) soldiers who fought first for the Portuguese in Angola, and then for South Africa from bases in northern Namibia. When South Africa withdrew from Namibia, many of these...
by Albie Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa’s security forces. His right arm was blown off, and he lost sight in one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery...
Memoirs of a Born Free
Reflections on the New South Africa by a Member of the Post-apartheid Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Apartheid isn't over—so Malaika Wa Azania boldly argues in Memoirs of a Born Free, her account of growing up black in modern-day South Africa. Malaika was born in late 1991, as the white minority government was on its way out, making her a "Born Free"—the name given to the generation...
by Stephen Francis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Several strips of South Africa’s most popular comic, Madam & Eve, are collected in this satirical compendium. It follows the motley crew of Madam, Eve, Thandi, and Mother Anderson-who are like old friends to most South Africans-as they dash about in their dysfunctional, chaotic, and totally...
The Finger of God
Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers. Called the Israelites, they refused to leave their holy village of Ntabelanga, where they had been gathering since early 1919...
A Soviet Journey
A Critical Annotated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In 1978, the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925–1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in the Soviet Union. Today it stands as one of the longest and most substantive first-hand accounts of the USSR by an African writer. La Guma’s book is consequently a rare...
by Jorge Sotirios
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Lonesome George, Cest Moi! is a travel adventure and comedy of epic proportions. In his mock heroic quest of self-discovery ending in a confrontation with his alter ego, a giant lovelorn tortoise on the Galapagos Islands, author Jorge Sotirios illuminates the rugged beauty of the South American landscape,...
by Barry Pomeroy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
My latest trip to South America was meant to be much more than just a return to the continent. Silvio had readied his RV for the three-country excursion, and more importantly, planned particularly enticing meetings with alligators and presidents.
After arriving in Buenos Aires we almost immediately...
Incidence of Travel
Recent Journeys in Ancient South America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In Incidence of Travel, archaeologist Jerry Moore draws on his personal experiences and historical and archaeological studies throughout South America to explore and understand the ways traditional peoples created cultural landscapes in the region. Using new narrative structures, Moore introduces...
by Jai Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either...
Hiking South Florida and the Keys
A Guide to 39 Great Walking and Hiking Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Hiking South Florida and the Keys features thirty-nine of the finest trails the region has to offer, from wet cypress swamps to dry pinewood forests. Four sections—Short Family Hikes, Day and Overnight Hikes, Long Haulers, and Walking the Florida Keys—comprise this user-friendly guide. M. Timothy...