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With Nelson Mandela's stalwart deeds and defiance fresh in our minds, this History Makers biography offers a complete narrative of his life and his impact on the world. This title illustrates the difficult and empowering chapters of Mandela's upbringing, his activism, his imprisonment, and his election. Readers will be riveted and inspired by the transformation of a young man seeking to end apartheid to a world leader who continues to inspire courage in pursuit of justice.

Biography of the South African leader, who was jailed for 27 years, served as South Africa's first black president, and become one of the world's most inspirational champions of human rights.

Read about Ferdinand Magellan, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Nelson Mandela. They are three people whose courage, ideas, and actions have changed the world.

A biography of Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, and president.

Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in South Africa in the late twentieth century, and considers the influence of Nelson Mandela as a force for ending the system of apartheid.

Terrorized because of his family's political beliefs, PK, a young, white South African orphan, turns to a wise old prisoner who teaches him how to box. As PK grows to manhood, his skill gives him a sense of justice and the confidence to take on the unjust system he sees around him.

Contains essays looking at the apartheid in South Africa.

Explores the care of seabirds that live at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds in South Africa.