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　　Dervla Murphy'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. When she first pedalled

across the Limpopo she fancied that she understood South Africa's

problems because for more than 40 years she had - from a distance -

taken a particular intrest in them. Within 12 hours of her journey

that illusion was shattered. This journal refelcts her moods of

confusion and eleation, hope and disappointment as she tries to

come to terms with a country even more complex and shattered - but

also more flexible - than she had expected. As she records her

quite often contradictory reactions to the new South Africa, Dervla

Murphy's journal records how she came to love the new South Africa.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of

this title.

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　　Dervla Murphy was born in County Waterford, Ireland, in 1931.

Since 1964 she has regularly publishing de*ions of her

journeys in the more remote areas of four continents. Her previous

books on Africa describe travels through Ethiopia, Madagascar,

Cameroon, Kenya and Zimbabwe. --This text refers to the

Paperback edition.

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　　Dervla Murphy is a fine and accomplished Irish writer who has

penned 16 books, and has both a detail-catching eye and great

personal ambition. Between 1993 and 1995, when she was in her early

60s, she rode her bike 6,000 miles across South Africa--alone--when

the Republic was engulfed by racial strife. The question is, Why?

As Murphy herself admits, it wasn't for pleasure. Was it then to

personally document a country that she herself likens to a mental

asylum, where disease and danger followed her like a stalker? Was

it to show that she cared or illustrate that she could make such a

trek despite her age and the tumultuous social environment?

Whatever her motivation, there are numerous problems to conquer:

She gets tick fever, her bike is stolen, she is continually warned

that her path is not safe--yet on she bikes through gales and

parched desert, into impoverished villages and the occasional

wealthy town. Struggles abound, and Murphy documents them all, like

a martyrish "Little Caboose," with nearly every page darkened by

some hardship or sketch of sadness. She uncovers some of the

complexity of post-apartheid society--where fears rage like an

airborne epidemic--and she skillfully records scenery. But this

dense and detailed book is like the subject of apartheid,

ultimately depressing. When Murphy confesses that she has "come to

love the place," it's hard to believe her, or to understand why.

--Melissa Rossi

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Dervla Murphy'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. When she first pedalled across the Limpopo she fancied that she understood South Africa's problems because for more than 40 years she had - from a distance - taken a particular intrest in them. Within 12 hours of her journey that illusion was shattered. This journal refelcts her moods of confusion and eleation, hope and disappointment as she tries to come to terms with a country even more complex and shattered - but also more flexible - than she had expected. As she records her quite often contradictory reactions to the new South Africa, Dervla Murphy's journal records how she came to love the new South Africa. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.