Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story
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Author: Drury Pifer
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 352
In the 1930s, at the height of America's Great Depression, Drury Pifer's father, a newly-married mining engineer, followed his obsession with rocks, stones and mineral formations to the mysterious mines of South Africa. An American idealist with progressive ideas about pay and working conditions, he found himself caught between the insular hostility of the Afrikaners and the colonial arrogance of the English. His adopted country was a place of primitive mining settlements, stinging desert winds, locust plagues, rats in the water supply, bullying bosses and terrible poverty. Racial hatred had been given a name and enforced by law: apartheid. It was here that Drury Pifer's parents, unprepared for the prison-camp conditions and ugly prejudice they would encounter, tried to raise their family. This is an evocation of a South African boyhood, by a boy who never belonged.
Author: Drury Pifer
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 352
In the 1930s, at the height of America's Great Depression, Drury Pifer's father, a newly-married mining engineer, followed his obsession with rocks, stones and mineral formations to the mysterious mines of South Africa. An American idealist with progressive ideas about pay and working conditions, he found himself caught between the insular hostility of the Afrikaners and the colonial arrogance of the English. His adopted country was a place of primitive mining settlements, stinging desert winds, locust plagues, rats in the water supply, bullying bosses and terrible poverty. Racial hatred had been given a name and enforced by law: apartheid. It was here that Drury Pifer's parents, unprepared for the prison-camp conditions and ugly prejudice they would encounter, tried to raise their family. This is an evocation of a South African boyhood, by a boy who never belonged.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Drury Pifer
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 352
In the 1930s, at the height of America's Great Depression, Drury Pifer's father, a newly-married mining engineer, followed his obsession with rocks, stones and mineral formations to the mysterious mines of South Africa. An American idealist with progressive ideas about pay and working conditions, he found himself caught between the insular hostility of the Afrikaners and the colonial arrogance of the English. His adopted country was a place of primitive mining settlements, stinging desert winds, locust plagues, rats in the water supply, bullying bosses and terrible poverty. Racial hatred had been given a name and enforced by law: apartheid. It was here that Drury Pifer's parents, unprepared for the prison-camp conditions and ugly prejudice they would encounter, tried to raise their family. This is an evocation of a South African boyhood, by a boy who never belonged.
Author: Drury Pifer
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 352
In the 1930s, at the height of America's Great Depression, Drury Pifer's father, a newly-married mining engineer, followed his obsession with rocks, stones and mineral formations to the mysterious mines of South Africa. An American idealist with progressive ideas about pay and working conditions, he found himself caught between the insular hostility of the Afrikaners and the colonial arrogance of the English. His adopted country was a place of primitive mining settlements, stinging desert winds, locust plagues, rats in the water supply, bullying bosses and terrible poverty. Racial hatred had been given a name and enforced by law: apartheid. It was here that Drury Pifer's parents, unprepared for the prison-camp conditions and ugly prejudice they would encounter, tried to raise their family. This is an evocation of a South African boyhood, by a boy who never belonged.
Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story