He was a prisoner, who became a president, to unite his country. This novel is incredibly inspiring; it gave me goose bumps while reading it. I don’t know how one man can go through so much and come out the greatest man that has ever touched this earth. The aim of the book isn’t about rugby, Francois Pienaar or the Springboks winning the 1995 world cup; it’s about how Nelson Mandela changed a nation using his personality to win over prison guards, ministers, citizens and rugby players alike. John Carlin, a former South Africa correspondent, tells the story based on interviews he did either specifically for the book (between 2000-2007) or in the course of his general journalistic work after he went to live in South Africa in 1989. This book, now movie, is about how Nelson Mandela was in prison for 23 years and then set out to change a nation. His greatest challenge, as you find out, is how to bring the nation together and remove social divides such as race, age and religion. He used one of the most far fetched ideas around and it was the Springboks, the country’s national rugby team to bring millions of people together. When his people needed a leader, he gave them a champion. He asked one man, to do the impossible. There are various versions of this book with all different covers, mine had Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon wearing the green and gold of the Springboks. It seems to be a book about rugby and it is but the novel talks more about Nelson Mandela’s story and how he used rugby to unite a country that had been separated by years of violence. The book was very well written, I really liked how John Carlin split up the book into chapters and put pictures in the middle of Nelson and the real rugby players. John Carlin is a great story teller and tells this amazing story really, really well. Overall I would recommend this to anybody that is in for an easy read and would like to learn about Nelson Mandela and South Africa. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” He was a prisoner, who became a president, to unite his country. This novel is incredibly inspiring; it gave me goose bumps while reading it. I don’t know how one man can go through so much and come out the greatest man that has ever touched this earth. The aim of the book isn’t about rugby, Francois Pienaar or the Springboks winning the 1995 world cup; it’s about how Nelson Mandela changed a nation using his personality to win over prison guards, ministers, citizens and rugby players alike. John Carlin, a former South Africa correspondent, tells the story based on interviews he did either specifically for the book (between 2000-2007) or in the course of his general journalistic work after he went to live in South Africa in 1989. This book, now movie, is about how Nelson Mandela was in prison for 23 years and then set out to change a nation. His greatest challenge, as you find out, is how to bring the nation together and remove social divides such as race, age and religion. He used one of the most far fetched ideas around and it was the Springboks, the country’s national rugby team to bring millions of people together. When his people needed a leader, he gave them a champion. He asked one man, to do the impossible. There are various versions of this book with all different covers, mine had Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon wearing the green and gold of the Springboks. It seems to be a book about rugby and it is but the novel talks more about Nelson Mandela’s story and how he used rugby to unite a country that had been separated by years of violence. The book was very well written, I really liked how John Carlin split up the book into chapters and put pictures in the middle of Nelson and the real rugby players. John Carlin is a great story teller and tells this amazing story really, really well. Overall I would recommend this to anybody that is in for an easy read and would like to learn about Nelson Mandela and South Africa. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
He was a prisoner, who became a president, to unite his country.
ReplyDeleteThis novel is incredibly inspiring; it gave me goose bumps while reading it. I don’t know how one man can go through so much and come out the greatest man that has ever touched this earth. The aim of the book isn’t about rugby, Francois Pienaar or the Springboks winning the 1995 world cup; it’s about how Nelson Mandela changed a nation using his personality to win over prison guards, ministers, citizens and rugby players alike. John Carlin, a former South Africa correspondent, tells the story based on interviews he did either specifically for the book (between 2000-2007) or in the course of his general journalistic work after he went to live in South Africa in 1989. This book, now movie, is about how Nelson Mandela was in prison for 23 years and then set out to change a nation. His greatest challenge, as you find out, is how to bring the nation together and remove social divides such as race, age and religion. He used one of the most far fetched ideas around and it was the Springboks, the country’s national rugby team to bring millions of people together. When his people needed a leader, he gave them a champion. He asked one man, to do the impossible. There are various versions of this book with all different covers, mine had Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon wearing the green and gold of the Springboks. It seems to be a book about rugby and it is but the novel talks more about Nelson Mandela’s story and how he used rugby to unite a country that had been separated by years of violence. The book was very well written, I really liked how John Carlin split up the book into chapters and put pictures in the middle of Nelson and the real rugby players. John Carlin is a great story teller and tells this amazing story really, really well. Overall I would recommend this to anybody that is in for an easy read and would like to learn about Nelson Mandela and South Africa.
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
He was a prisoner, who became a president, to unite his country.
This novel is incredibly inspiring; it gave me goose bumps while reading it. I don’t know how one man can go through so much and come out the greatest man that has ever touched this earth. The aim of the book isn’t about rugby, Francois Pienaar or the Springboks winning the 1995 world cup; it’s about how Nelson Mandela changed a nation using his personality to win over prison guards, ministers, citizens and rugby players alike. John Carlin, a former South Africa correspondent, tells the story based on interviews he did either specifically for the book (between 2000-2007) or in the course of his general journalistic work after he went to live in South Africa in 1989. This book, now movie, is about how Nelson Mandela was in prison for 23 years and then set out to change a nation. His greatest challenge, as you find out, is how to bring the nation together and remove social divides such as race, age and religion. He used one of the most far fetched ideas around and it was the Springboks, the country’s national rugby team to bring millions of people together. When his people needed a leader, he gave them a champion. He asked one man, to do the impossible. There are various versions of this book with all different covers, mine had Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon wearing the green and gold of the Springboks. It seems to be a book about rugby and it is but the novel talks more about Nelson Mandela’s story and how he used rugby to unite a country that had been separated by years of violence. The book was very well written, I really liked how John Carlin split up the book into chapters and put pictures in the middle of Nelson and the real rugby players. John Carlin is a great story teller and tells this amazing story really, really well. Overall I would recommend this to anybody that is in for an easy read and would like to learn about Nelson Mandela and South Africa.
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”