'Exterminate All The Brutes'
'Exterminate All The Brutes'
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Summary
Taking his title from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Sven Lindqvist traces Europe's dark history in Africa in the form of a travel diary and a historical examination of European imperialism and racism over the past two centuries.
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'Exterminate All The Brutes' by Sven Lindqvist
The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from Conrad's The Heart of Darkness - Kurtz's injunction to 'Exterminate All the Brutes' - he combined an account of his experiences with a profound historical investigation, revealing precisely what Europe's imperial powers had exacted on Africa's peoples over the course of the preceding two centuries. Shocking, humane, imaginative and deeply moral, Exterminate All the Brutes stands as timeless classic of historical investigation. It is essential reading for anybody seeking to face up to the brutal, genocidal, racist history on which Europe built its wealth. 'Powerful' Sunday Times 'Exemplary' Independent 'Important' Guardian
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 Berger
This 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 Gott
Exemplary * Independent *
This book should be school curriculum material * New Internationalist *
Here is a book which has come out of risk and years of thought -- John Berger
This 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 Gott
Exemplary * Independent *
This book should be school curriculum material * New Internationalist *
Sven Lindqvist (1932-2019) was born in Stockholm, and travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America. He was the author of thirty books, including A History of Bombing, Desert Divers, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and Exterminate All the Brutes, which formed the basis of a major HBO four-part documentary series by Academy Award-nominated writer and director Raoul Peck.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781847081988 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847081983 |
| Title | 'Exterminate All The Brutes' |
| Author | Sven Lindqvist |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2018-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |