King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

376 pages first pub 1998 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
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In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a young British shipping-company official working in Antwerp, began to notice something that made him suspicious. When his company’s ships docked from the Congo - the new colony that the Belgian king, Léopold II, ha...

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