The Scramble for Africa: the White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham
The Scramble for Africa: the White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

Thomas Pakenham

The Scramble for Africa: the White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

Thomas Pakenham

738 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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Ironically, the provocation for this massive display of greed on the part of the European powers came from the heroic death in 1873 of the missionary-explorer David Livingstone, who had exposed the horrors of the African slave trade then in progre...

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