MY ROAD TRIP WITH NELSON MANDELA Nelson Mandela’s book “Long Walk To Freedom” is not stunning prose. It doesn’t really need to be. The fact that Mr. Mandela tells his story so simply, in such an unadorned style, somehow makes his accomplishments, and South Africa’s, even more remarkable. If an adventurer writes, “I dove off the boat into the gathering school of sharks,” he need not describe the opalescent quality of the water. After you read “Long Walk To Freedom,”, then try to imagine Mr. Mandela telling you his story personally, while driving with him through the stunning South African countryside. You pass black South Africans walking on the side of the highway, hiking perhaps twenty kilometers to a medical clinic. You pass decrepit shacks, mansions, snake through deep sandstone gorges, and over mountain passes
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