Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: autobiography, illustrated, mandela
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0316550388
ISBN-13: 9780316550383

A personal memoir of the first black president of South Africa records every stage in his life, including his efforts as an anti-apartheid activist, years as a political prisoner, and receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: aesop, accolades, awards, folktales, african, mandela, favorite, nelson
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-11-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393052125
ISBN-13: 9780393052121

"It is my wish that the voice of the storyteller may never die in Africa, that all the children of the world may experience the wonder of books."—Nelson Mandela, from the Foreword The vibrant tradition of African folktales—an oral heritage of stories that predates Ovid—is long, varied, and exceptionally rich, but surprisingly has been largely overlooked in the West. Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Laureate for Peace, selected thirty-two African stories for this extraordinary new book, an anthology that will present Africa’s oldest folktales to the children of the world. In these stor

Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: Steck-Vaugh
Keywords: connections, hrw, library, mandela, nelson, freedom, autobiography, walk
Number of Pages: 507
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $19.73
ISBN-10: 0030565812
ISBN-13: 9780030565816

The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Among the book’s interesting revelations is Mandela’s ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the most trying circumst

Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: mandela, nelson, autobiography, freedom, walk
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0316548189
ISBN-13: 9780316548182

1995 First editionThe famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Among the book’s interesting revelations is Mandela’s ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the mo

Author: The Nelson Mandela Foundation
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: book, comic, authorized, mandela, nelson
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-07-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393336468
ISBN-13: 9780393336467

The fantastic, heroic life of Nelson Mandela, brought to life in this landmark graphic work.Nelson Mandela’s memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that classic work comes this fully authorized graphic biography, which relays in picture form the life story of the world’s greatest moral and political hero—from his boyhood in a small South African village to his growing political activism with

Author: Zapiro
Publisher: Double Storey Publisher
Keywords: files, mandela
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1770130047
ISBN-13: 9781770130043

Drawing on Zapiro’s astonishing range of cartoons of Madiba (as Nelson Mandela is affectionately known in South Africa) from the late 1980s to the present, this handsome book is political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro’s personal tribute to the great man of our time. In addition to the classic cartoons there are personal anecdotes about Zapiro’s first political cartoons, his meetings with Madiba, commentary on the stories and inspiration behind the cartoons, and the responses Zapiro has had to his Madiba drawings. There are doodles and sketches, as well as hand-colored works and black-and-w

Author: Charlene Smith
Publisher: Struik Publisher
Keywords: mandela
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2005-06-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1868728285
ISBN-13: 9781868728282

Mandela traces the life and work of South Africa’s first democratically elected president. Beginning with his early years in a tiny village in the Transkei, the book follows him to Johannesburg, and his studies and involvement with the liberation movement. It describes Mandela’s evolution as a politician from his leadership of the ANC Youth League, through the grim years of imprisonment on Robben Island, to the delicate talks that preceded his release from prison, and the complicated and often tumultuous negotiations that culminated in April 1994, with the first democratic election