The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey - Adam Hochschild

The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey

History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later.

This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.

By: Adam Hochschild

Publisher: Viking, first edition 1990

Pages: 309

Dimensions: ± 22.5.5 cm x 15 cm

Hard cover. Good condition. Ex-Library book with library stamp and catalogue card. Pages lightly tanned