His Truth Is Marching On Nick Bantock Far from home and the

Far from home and the help of Grace and Tendai

themes seldom explored in South African fiction come vividly to life

at a friend's tepid New Year's Eve party

this hitherto unpublished manuscript presents a portrait both surprising and in some ways familiar of Africa and of a central figure in the literature of African colonialism

His Truth Is Marching On Nick Bantock Far from home and theJohn Lewis, who at age twenty five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what