Michener’s novel starts in the beginning before the first settlers established a provisional foothold in Cape of Good Hope and through a delightfully woven epic takes you through the development of this great and surprising country up to the mid-1970s.
This is no lightweight adventure, love story, but it has sufficient dynamic and good storytelling to draw you in and leave you very satisfied that you have experienced a unique and fascinating journey, discovered good characters (some real such as the scary Shaka Zulu some fictional such as the Van family) and receive a fascinating insight into their lives, development and interaction. Sub plots abound that allow you to discover for example the origin of South African wine.
Those who have been lucky enough to visit the amazing land that is South Africa with its fantastic landscape, dramatic coastline, its cosmopolitan people and fantastic wildlife and vegetation see a South Africa today that has taken many extreme and difficult turns on the way to be able to host an event of world renown.
The recent history is known by many and figures such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu are still present to remind us about the importance of the modern South Africa's stability. Become aware of what happened before this time, and what really lies behind the current South Africa.
Cape Town today is on a par with any European city, it has department stores that would not be in out of place in LA and has entertainment to match that the world's best. But there was a time when sailors went right on by Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain, considering this rare potential landing point not worthy of a stop-over. How times have changed.
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