The illustrated long walk to freedom
Subtitle: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By: [Nelson Mandela]
Edition: Reprinted.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780316146753
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Historical; HISTORY; South; General; Republic of South Africa
Other titles: Long walk to freedom
Description: The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time ...
Table of contents: title: A country childhood; title: Johannesburg; title: Birth of a freedom fighter; title: The struggle is my life; title: Treason; title: The black pimpernel; title: Rivonia; title: Robben Island: the dark years; title: Robben Island: beginning to hope; title: Talking with the enemy; title: Freedom.