Innocents in Africa : an American family's story

著者

• Pifer, Drury

書誌事項

Innocents in Africa : an American family's story

Drury Pifer

Granta Books in association with Penguin Books, 1995, c1994

注記

First published in the U.S. by Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994

First published in U.K. by Granta Books, 1994

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA24917636
• ISBN:
  • 014014093X
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 338 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 968.00413092
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Pifer, Drury, 1933-
  • LCSH : Americans -- South Africa -- Biography
  • LCSH : South Africa -- Biography