"Against all odds - despite the aeroplane and the motor car - trains are still one of the best ways to travel to discover a country. In this book, six seasoned travellers share their discoveries and their pleasure in travelling by train. Mark Tully takes the Khyber Mail through Pakistan to the breathtaking Khyber Pass. Lisa St Aubin de Teran rediscovers South America. Clive Anderson explores China, Hong Kong and Mongolia. Prima ballerina ..."
"Tying in with a BBC2 series, this book comprises accounts of six international train adventures undertaken by well-known personalities. Chat-show host Clive Anderson travels from Hong Kong to Mongolia; ballerina Natalia Makarova from St Petersburg to Tashkent; anti-apartheid author Rian Malan from Cape Town to Bophutatswana; actor and former Monty Python man Michael Palin from Derry to Kerry; novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran from Santos ..."
Time Conqueror - An empowerment guide What is your time worth to you? by RianMalan Paperback, 37 Pages, Published 2017 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-5220-5920-2, ISBN: 1-5220-5920-2
"“Time Conqueror” is a research Initiative by Connexions ZA. It contains research on issues related to time management, or rather productivity, that is updated periodically. What is the value of one hour to you? $50? $100? $1,000? If you don’t save at least one hour per month with this guide... It is what it is - an ongoing research project about time management. It gives you abstracts, quotes and references for further readin ..."
My Traitor's Heart Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by RianMalan Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2015 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958346-2, ISBN: 0-09-958346-1
"This title comes with a new introduction by the author. In 70s South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand the horrors wrought by apartheid: the poverty, injustice and violence. After an eight-year exile, he returned to write this book. With gripping stories and in mesmerisin ..."
The Lion Sleeps Tonight And Other Stories of Africa by RianMalan Paperback, Published 2014 by Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61185-583-8, ISBN: 1-61185-583-7
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Hardback) by RianMalan Hardcover, Published 2013 by Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-61185-605-7, ISBN: 1-61185-605-1
The Lion Sleeps Tonight And Other Stories of Africa by RianMalan Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2183-7, ISBN: 0-8021-2183-7
"Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor’s Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski.The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. Some of the essays previously appeared in a collection p ..."
The Lion Sleeps Tonight And Other Stories of Africa by RianMalan 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9483-1, ISBN: 0-8021-9483-4
"I spent eight years on the far side of the planet and when I came home, in the late
1980s, I saw that I was in Africa, and that changed ... I thought we were doomed
unless we figured out what had gone wrong elsewhere in Africa, and how to
avoid a similar fate. ... We listened to Bob Dylan and voted the white liberal ticket."
My Traitor's Heart A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience by RianMalan 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9390-2, ISBN: 0-8021-9390-0
"... score, it was clear that their differences would have to be resolved by violence,
in accordance with Boer political tradition. ... It was a grave insult, but Dr. Loek
was so sallow of complexion that he could have passed for a light-skinned black
..."
The Lion Sleeps Tonight by RianMalan Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1990-2, ISBN: 0-8021-1990-5
"Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor’s Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski.The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting, sometimes violent, steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. The collection comprises twenty-thre ..."
"Laid down in haste on an old four-track machine, it is less a work of art than a
talisman to transport you back to sweaty little clubs in the early days of Otis
Waygood's reign as South Africa's premier live group. Rob would brace himself in
a ..."
Resident Alien by RianMalan 300 Pages, Published 2010 by Jonathan Ball Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-86842-408-5, ISBN: 1-86842-408-1
"Resident Alien is a provocative and engaging collection of the best of Rian Malan's writings that have appeared in the likes of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Esquire, since My Traitor's Heart."
Resident Alien(1st Edition) by RianMalan Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2009 by Jonathan Ball Publishers Sa ISBN-13: 978-1-86842-356-9, ISBN: 1-86842-356-5
"Malan's new book Resident Alien is a collection of the best of his writings that have appeared in the likes of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Esquire, since My Traitor's Heart. Crisscrossing South Africa -- and further afield -- in a quest to understand the land and continent of his birth -- Malan does time with an extraordinary cast of characters: from vigilantes and outlaws to beauty queens and truckers; from Sol Kerzner to Jackie ..."
Resident Alien (Paperback) by RianMalan Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2009 by Jonathan Ball Publishers Sa ISBN-13: 978-1-86842-387-3, ISBN: 1-86842-387-5
"It still sells today. This book is a provocative and engaging collection of the best of his writings that have appeared in the likes of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Esquire, since My Traitor's Heart."
My Traitorandapos;s Heart(Reprint) A South African Exile Returns To Face His Country, His T And His Conscience (Library Binding) by RianMalan Library, Published 2008 by Unknown ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-0237-2, ISBN: 1-4395-0237-4
My Traitor's Heart(Reprint) A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience by RianMalan Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2000 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3684-8, ISBN: 0-8021-3684-2
"A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming face-to-face with the atrocities and terrors of an undeclared civil war between the races. This book is the searing account of his return after eight years of uneasy exile. Armed with n ..."
My Traitor's Heart(Updated) by RianMalan Paperback, 425 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage/Ebury (A Division Of Random ISBN-13: 978-0-09-974900-4, ISBN: 0-09-974900-9
"A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming face-to-face with the atrocities and terrors of an undeclared civil war between the races. This book is the searing account of his return after eight years of uneasy exile.Armed with ne ..."