This item has closed with no items sold
View other items offered by karooboeke1479

Similar products

R30 shipping
The life and fortunes of John Pocock of Cape Town 1814-1876
R120
R30 shipping
PRISONER IN THE GARDEN Opening Nelson Mandela`s Prison Archive
R200
R30 shipping
Lost communities, living memories remembering forced removals in Cape Town edited by Sean Fields
R260
R30 shipping
Fish horns and hansom cabs. Life in Victorian Cape Town
R400

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard - Life In Cape Town`s Stowaway Underground (Paperback) Sean Christie

New
R250.00
Closed 6 May 24 11:16
Shipping
Standard courier shipping from R30
R30 Standard shipping using one of our trusted couriers applies to most areas in South Africa. Some areas may attract a R30 surcharge. This will be calculated at checkout if applicable.
Check my rate
Ready to ship in
The seller has indicated that they will usually have this item ready to ship within 3 business days. Shipping time depends on your delivery address. The most accurate delivery time will be calculated at checkout, but in general, the following shipping times apply:
 
Standard Delivery
Main centres:  1-3 business days
Regional areas: 3-4 business days
Remote areas: 3-5 business days
Get it now, pay later
Buyer Protection

Product details

Condition
New
Location
South Africa
Bob Shop ID
611934768

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard - Life In CapeTown's Stowaway Underground (Paperback)

Sean Christie

Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town'sforeshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums ofDar es Salaam.

When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comesto know the extraordinary world of Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generationsubculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. But Sean startsto accompany the beachboys on trips around their everyday Cape Town, he becomesmore than a casual observer, serving as sometime moneylender, driver, confidantand scribe, and eventually joining Adam on an unprecedented tour of Dar esSalaam's underworld and a reckless run down Africa's east coast.

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard remaps both cityand continent, introducing us to the places and people we so frequentlyoverlook.

More from this seller

View all
R30 shipping
Saving the Zululand Wilderness - An Early Struggle for Nature Conservation (HB) Donald P. McCraken
R650
R30 shipping
The racket - A rogue reporter vs the American elite (Paperback) Matt Kennard (OUT OF PRINT NEW)
R250
R30 shipping
Beauty ... A Black Perspective, Ribane, Nakedi (OUT OF PRINT NEW)
R550
R30 shipping
Internal frontiers - African nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa
R350