Desert Divers by Sven Lindqvist

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Desert Divers by Sven Lindqvist

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Summary

A personal journey into the Sahara and the racist assumptions of those writers who have gone before him. Taking as a metaphor the divers who cleaned out desert wells, Lindqvist drags to the surface the story of colonial slaughter and sexual exploitation which contaminate his boyhood idols.

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Desert Divers by Sven Lindqvist

In the first half of the twentieth century, European writers plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams. What did they hope to find? And what was really there?

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Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively though Asia, Africa and Latin America. 'Exterminate All the Brutes' is available from Granta Books.
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ISBN 13 9781862073593
ISBN 10 1862073597
Title Desert Divers
Author Sven Lindqvist
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Granta Books
Year published 2000-05-04
Number of pages 192
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