When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic, India chooses to work in the city's East End instead, serving the de
Winter's Rising
β Scribed by Mark Tufo
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 913 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Relates the author's four and a half year journey through southern Africa and his interviews with many people of all colors and backgrounds.;Preface -- Part one: the land of apartheid. Winter inside South Africa ; City of darkness ; City of gold ; Gandhi's heirs ; The Afrikaner paradox ; Writers under apartheid ; Sports: the Kaizer Chiefs ; Heroes underground ; Bantustans: the archipelago of misery ; Namibia: the last colony -- Part two: from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The year of the people's storm ; The land of our fathers ; Independence and reconciliation -- Part three: South Africa's long walk to freedom. Peaceful defiance fails ; The movement turns to fighting ; Hope rising.
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