Buy this book on-line Pifer (D.) : INNOCENTS IN AFRICA, An American Family's Story
338 pages, 8vo (230 x 155 mm), map, illustrations, white cloth back and paper covered boards, d.w.
'At the height of the Great Depression, Drury, Pifer's father - a mining engineer with two college degrees and no job prospects - embarked on a search for security and adventure in the gold and diamond mines of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's South Africa. The young hopeful and his wife know nothing of the brutal working conditions, desert winds, and hidebound prejudices that awaited them. "Advancement in the mines was a game of favourites, and my father was an American," writes Drury Pifer. "He lacked both the tribal instincts of the Afrikaner and the colonial assumptions of the English." Although he was a practical man, the engineer's faith in honesty and hard work made him an innocent in Africa.' Editor's Note.
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