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Borderline (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 1 740
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Borderline (Paperback)
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Loot Price R174
Discovery Miles 1 740
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Borderline is a travelogue, but a travelogue with a difference. The
author takes the reader on a fascinating journey down the Orange
river, a journey interwoven with historical detail from the places
he visits and the history of South Africa as a whole. Augmented by
his own photographs and an abundance of other visual material, the
title becomes a document of discovery, much like the source
material that Dicey himself quotes from - the first European
explorers of the South African interior. But unlike these early
documents of journeys into the unknown, and their depictions of
outlandish animals and men, Dicey's travelogue is a document that
touches the very fabric of history. Deriving much of its energy
from the frontier days of the Cape Colony and from the people who
populated that frontier - the San, the Nama, the Griqua, the
Basters, and the coloured people into whom they have merged, Dicey
investigates the waves of human occupation and the subsequent
fallout as the indigenous people and then the Basters and Griquas
were moved off their land around the Orange. This is in fact the
story of the river, how it has shaped and in turn been shaped by
South African history.
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