Nelson Mandela
By: Laaren Brown and Lenny Hort
Contributors: Hort, Lenny
Series: DK biography; DK biography
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781405314145
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Presidents; Biography
Description: A biography of the first black South African president, who spent twenty-seven years in jail for his political beliefs, discusses the struggle to end apartheid, his country's former system of racial segregation and oppression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index.
Table of contents: title: A troublemaker is born; title: Growing up; title: Joining the fight; title: Working for unity; title: Acts of defiance; title: The revolutionary and the lawyer; title: Treason?; title: The Black Pimpernel; title: Life on the island; title: The university; title: Free Mandela!; title: Retreat through a silver bridge; title: Free at last; title: President Mandela.