Second Chances: A Travel Narrative of Southern Africa by Martha B. Hopkins

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Second Chances: A Travel Narrative of Southern Africa by Martha B. Hopkins
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Features

Paperback: 176 pages

Publisher: Fithian Press March 1, 2000

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1564743160

ISBN-13: 978-1564743169

Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 9 ounces

From Library Journal
Post-apartheid South Africa has been attracting the attention of writers and scholars throughout the world. This is one of the many volumes written to show how the country has changed and how it has remained the same since the major political upheavals of the early 1990s. Hopkins, a freelance writer from Tucson, AZ, visited South Africa and Namibia from 1995 to 1996, when Nelson Mandela had been president for two years and South Africa was in the middle of a transformation. Although Hopkins describes numerous personal experiences as she shows how the population is adjusting, the book is more valuable as a study of a woman in her late middle age coming to grips with her past and anticipating the future than it is as an insightful portrayal of South Africa. Still, the book is well written and enjoyable; recommended for public libraries.DMark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Review
"By focusing on the stories of daily existence in her travels, Hopkins opens a window onto this remarkable moment of history, and finds that view a parable of hope for all human societies." -- Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of The Edges of the Civilized World

valuable as a study of a woman in her late middle age coming to grips. Well written and recommended -- Library Jouranl

Reader Reviews
The good travel books are the spontaneous ones, those with a minimum of advance planning in which the traveler always seems to be coming upon new things: discovery rather than simply uncovering "interesting" sites. Further, the best travel books are those in which the unfolding experience reveals new dimensions of the self as well as of the place visited. SECOND CHANCES is a fine contribution to this superior rank of travel books. Martha Hopkins gives us a remarkable portrait of southern Africa just emerging from apartheid onto a hopeful terrain where real democracy seems within reach. In the same context her knowledge of herself grows in scope and discernment, with the feeling that she, like a significant region of the world, has been blessed with a second chance to review the past and construct a better future: this time to do it right. SECOND CHANCES is a marvelous book to read and enjoy--and to learn from.

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