Shortly before his death in 1984, Italo Calvino assembled thirty-eight essays in his Collections of Sand (Collezione di Sabbia). One section of essays was labelled ‘The Traveller in the Map’ (Il viandante nella mappa). Calvino described his notion of a cartographic odyssey:
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Parallel experiences and narratives in the histories of South Africa and of Ireland, and the ways in which the stories of pain and of hope are shared by storytellers who guide visitors in museums and heritage sites in each context, make for an important and timely comparison. The authors reflect, in the closing pages of this book, on the relevance of museums in the twenty-first century.
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Pioneering architect Hermann Kallenbach purchased this site in 1909. He and his friend M K Gandhi camped in a bell tent on the hillside until Kallenbach built a thatched stone rondavel. Gandhi stayed here with Kallenbach on occasion, as did Indian statesman G.K. Gokhale during his 1912 South African tour.