Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, April 5 2003 / a relic of old South Africa

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1055_rd

A sort of hybrid between a textbook and coffee table book I found in the Liberty Lodge lobby.

1057_frontispiece

The publication date of this book.

1054_publishedby

The people responsible for this book. I'm sure they are not fully independent of Reader's Digest America.

1052_noapartheid

No mention of Apartheid or African National Congress in the index.

1058_peoplemap

An interesting "peoples map" from the book. Note that no people at all are said to be native to areas in the southwest then deemed to be whites-only. But in other areas of the book there is an admission that "Hottentots" were present on the Cape of Good Hope from the beginning.

Also, and this is beside the point, but one has to chuckle at such nonsense filler phrases as "kaleidoscope of colourful contrasts."