A Very Strange Society: A Journey to the Heart of South Africa is a 1967 non-fiction book by Allen Drury.

[4] Combining newspaper articles, interviews and government edicts, Drury presents the "achievements and failures" of the new republic, which was founded in 1961.

[4] In November 1967, Kirkus Reviews wrote: Utilizing a pro and con format, Drury presents a rather convincing case why a minority of whites should be in a position to totally dominate and manipulate a vastly larger non-white population.

Although he scores Afrikaan provincialism, police-state methods, and obduracy, it is done in a manner that suggests redemption will come from the purging of traits rather than ideology.

On the other hand, it most certainly fails as a dispassionate and objective handling of the South African dilemma.