The Mirror at Midnight

A “stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation” by the New York Times –bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost ( Publishers Weekly ). National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime’s familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination of a critical turning point in that nation’s history: the Great Trek of 1836–39, during which Dutch-speaking white settlers, known as Boers, journeyed deep into the country’s interior to escape the British co