The World That Made Mandela: A Heritage Trail. 70 Sites of Significance

Luli Callinicos, The World That Made Mandela: A Heritage Trail.  Johannesburg: STE Publishers, 2000.

Hard cover, square quarto (29 x 30 cm), dustwrapper, 339 pages, heavily illustrated with black-and-white and colour photographs.

Dustwrapper rubbed and torn; the book itself is in fine condition.

Luli Callinicos, one of South Africa's most eminent historians, has created an extraordinary documentary of a book in which geography and history blend, and the collective life and image of a nation is focused through the life of one individualNelson Mandela.

Using 1000 images of past and present, the world that made Mandela moves through rural villages to the hectic metropolis, from District 6 to Robben Island. Tracing his footsteps through sites of public struggle and private development, it illuminates many hidden spaces in our history, while casting new lights on the familiar.

South Africans will find the world that made Mandela a rich reflection of their cultural and political heritage, and visitors to the country will discover in it the faces of our past and our people.

This book brings to light our living history. Here are the people and events of our past, commemorated in the places that map the pathway to our country's liberation.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.