"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist

"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Sven Lindqvist with Joan Tate (Translator)

179 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, Sven Lindqvist takes us on a haunting tour through the colon...

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