Review invited for travel memoir with mystical elements

[Leo]

This book recounts my travels to Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa, midway through the last decade. There is student unrest under the banner #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall,

You will be interested in this book if:

You enjoy narrative, non-fiction writing
You have an interest in personal narratives
You enjoy contemporary descriptions of places including the people, history and cultures thereof.
You enjoy anecdotal reporting which ties into a bigger narrative story
You enjoy an infusion of humorous anecdote and conversation into the narrative

The story begins in the mother city, Cape Town, where I meet some intriguing inhabitants in a surfers' backpacker hostel. Carllo is in communion with The Essence, a mystical life-force, and offers to divine my future.

I revisit my old university in Pretoria and visit some of the landmarks which I neglected to do as a student. The confrontation between the past and present is everywhere: the student protests under the banner #RhodesMustFall; the newly erected palisade fence around the statue of the Boer leader, Paul Kruger, recently desecrated; and the transformation of Church Square.

Underlying my travels around South Africa, now in its 3rd decade of democracy, are questions of identity, affiliation and belonging.

The last two chapters are given over to my varied adventures at Ardmore Guest Farm at the foothills of the Central Drakensberg. A motley assortment of characters grace the pages of this one-of-a-kind establishment.

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Is is also translated in Afrikaans, the title of which is Herbesoek aan Suid-Afrika. Also available free as an ebook.