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Author | : Nechama Brodie |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 809 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1920545999 |
The Cape Town Book presents a fresh picture of the Mother City, one that brings together all its stories. From geology and beaches to forced removals and hip-hop, Nechama Brodie, author of the best-selling The Joburg Book, has delved deeply into the hidden past of Cape Town to emerge with a lucid and compelling account of South Africa’s fi rst city, its landscape and its people. The book’s 14 chapters trace the origins and expansion of Cape Town – from the City Bowl to the southern and coastal suburbs, the vast expanse of the Cape Flats and the sprawling northern areas. Offering a nuanced, yet balanced, perspective on Cape Town, the book includes familiar attractions like Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch and the Company’s Garden, while also giving a voice to marginalised communities in areas such as Athlone, Langa, Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha. Many of the images in the book have never been published before, and are drawn from the archives of museums, universities and public institutions. This beautifully illustrated, information-rich book is the defi nitive portrait of the wind-blown, contradictory city at the southern tip of Africa that more than three million people call home
Author | : Zoë Wicomb |
Publisher | : The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-04-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1558619151 |
The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."
Author | : Gerald Hoberman |
Publisher | : Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collect |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781919939490 |
Simultaneously city and wilderness, Cape Town is a place of haunting natural beauty and captivating urban charm. This insightful portrait of the city's history, architectural heritage, scenic wonders, people and diverse cultures will appeal to all those who share an interest in and a love for South Africa's mother city.
Author | : Catherine Besteman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520942646 |
This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on intimate questions of love, family, and community and capturing the complex, sometimes contradictory voices of a wide variety of Capetonians. Her evaluation of the physical and psychic costs to individuals involved in working for social change is grounded in the experiences of the participants and illu-minates two overarching dimensions of life in Cape Town: the aggregate forces determined to maintain the apartheid-era status quo, and the grassroots efforts to effect social change.
Author | : Justin Fox |
Publisher | : Tafelberg |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Discover Cape Town with top contemporary authors both well-loved locals and international travel writers.
Author | : Justin Fox |
Publisher | : Editions Jonglez |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9782361951405 |
"Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, Cape Town is a reserve of well-concealed treasures, revealed only to those residents or visitors prepared to wander off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who think they know Cape Town well and those who would like to discover the hidden face of the city"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Sean Field |
Publisher | : HSRC Publishers |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The overriding strength of this book is that it places people--ordinary people--at the centre of memory, at the centre of historical and contemporary experience, and thus at the centre of reimagining and owning the city of Cape Town. It is as they speak--what they choose to say, what they choose to remain silent about--that we become aware of the possibilities of the city, if it really did embrace all its people, in all of their diversity." --Mike van Graan, from the foreword Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, but they are also constructed through popular imagination and memory as evidenced in this collection of oral and visual histories drawn from the people who live, work, and creatively express themselves in Cape Town, South Africa. The collected works move beyond apartheid history to analyze the reflective ways in which people are coming to terms with that history through memory work, performance, and memorialization.
Author | : Peter Joyce |
Publisher | : New Holland Australia(AU) |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
It provides a window through which the lovely face of the Mother City can be viewed, as it passes in a panorama of landscapes, coastal wonderland, imposing mountains, people, imposing architecture and floral wonders. The beauty and grandeur of Cape Town, a city endowed with varied cultures, a remarkably rich floral kingdom and magnificent beaches and mountains, are portrayed in this guide in photography, making it without a doubt a visual celebration of this vibrant cosmopolitan city.
Author | : E. J. Levy |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316536555 |
A "gorgeous, thoughtful, heartbreaking" historical novel, The Cape Doctor is the story of one man’s journey from penniless Irish girl to one of most celebrated and accomplished figures of his time (Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for Me). Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Jonathan Mirandus Perry’s journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry soon embraced the new-found freedom of living life as a man. From brilliant medical student in Edinburgh and London to eligible bachelor and quick-tempered physician in Cape Town, Dr. Perry thrived. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives. E. J. Levy’s enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive.
Author | : Lillie Bernard Douglass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |