Innocents in Africa by Drury Pifer
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140140934 |
| ISBN 10 | 014014093X |
| Title | Innocents in Africa |
| Author | Drury Pifer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |