'Exterminate All The Brutes'
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2019
Summary
Unmasking Colonial Horrors: A Journey into the Heart of Darkness
Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, a pioneer of experiential history, journeyed through Central Africa. Haunted by Kurtz’s chilling command from The Heart of Darkness - ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ - he wove his personal experiences with a deep historical inquiry. He reveals with stark immediacy the brutal toll of European imperialism on Africa over two centuries.
Exterminate All the Brutes
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847081988 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1847081983 |
| Series: | Granta Editions |
| Author: | Sven Lindqvist |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
This book is important … we, our rulers, and their stooges should read it … it contains a message for our future – Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *Here is a book which has come out of risk and years of thought – John BergerThis powerful book has haunted me for months * Sunday Times *Sven Lindqvist [was] one of the most original and imaginative authors working at the end of the twentieth century. Together with Bruce Chatwin and Claudio Magris, he has pioneered a genre where to travel in space is also to travel in time. – Richard GottExemplary * Independent *This book should be school curriculum material * New Internationalist *
About The Author
Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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