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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797897303321

Autore

Weiss Ruth <1924->

Titolo

A path through hard grass : a journalist's memories of exile and apartheid / / Ruth Weiss ; with a foreword by Nadine Gordimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-905758-54-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Lives, Legacies, Legends

Disciplina

070.92

Soggetti

Women journalists - South Africa

Women journalists

Anti-apartheid activists - South Africa

Exile (Punishment) - Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Apartheid - South Africa - History

South Africa Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD; A NOTE REGARDING LANGUAGE; PROLOGUE; FROM FÜRTH TO JOHANNESBURG; AN UNJUST SOCIETY; NEW CUSTOMS; TEENAGE YEARS; JOHANNESBURG, JEWBURG AND E'GOLI; TROUBLED YEARS; EXPERIENCE WITH THE BOERS; THE FIFTIES; A NEW BEGINNING; CAREER MOVES; THE SIXTIES; FLIGHT AND TRAVEL; NEW FRIENDSHIPS AND LOVE; FLEET STREET, SALISBURY, LONDON; ZAMBIA - LIFE IN A FRONTLINE STATE; VOICE OF GERMANY; LONDON AND LANCASTER HOUSE; AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY; ZIMBABWE; SOUTH AFRICA; LATER YEARS; POSTSCRIPT; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHS