Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate

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

Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate

nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced

179 pages | first published 1992

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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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