This is the first publication in English of a biography of a British man that has become an award-winning bestseller in France. John Bradburne's life was a remarkable spiritual odyssey that involved pilgrimage, charity, sacrifice and ultimately martyrdom.
The true story of the remarkable spiritual odyssey of John Bradburne, a British pilgrim who visited a succession of religious communities and eventually settled in Zimbabwe, amongst a colony of lepers. He spent ten years with them, until he met a sudden and violent death at the end of the war for independence in September 1979.