Amy Biehl's Last Home: A Bright Life, a Tragic Death, and a Journey of Reconciliation in South Africa

by Steven D. Gish

Book Overview

In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women's rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa's most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amy's parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black township...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821423215
• ISBN13: 9780821423219
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"