South From the Limpopo: Travels Through South Africa(ISBN=97
Dervla Murphy is a fine and accomplished Irish writer who haspenned 16 books, and has both a detail-catching eye and greatpersonal ambition. Between 1993 and 1995, when she was in her early60s, she rode her bike 6,000 miles across South Africa--alone--whenthe Republic was engulfed by racial strife. The question is, Why?As Murphy herself admits, it wasn't for pleasure. Was it then topersonally document a country that she herself likens to a mentalasylum, where disease and danger followed her like a stalker? Wasit to show that she cared or illustrate that she could make such atrek 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 warnedthat her path is not safe--yet on she bikes through gales andparched desert, into impoverished villages and the occasionalwealthy town. Struggles abound, and Murphy documents them all, likea martyrish "Little Caboose," with nearly every page darke
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