Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist

Exterminate All the Brutes

Sven Lindqvist with Joan Tate (Translator)

192 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential history writing, set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness – Kurtz’s injunction to ‘Exterminate All...

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Moods

informative 78%
challenging 73%
dark 68%
reflective 63%
emotional 21%
sad 21%
adventurous 5%
inspiring 5%
tense 5%

Pace

medium 60%
slow 25%
fast 15%

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4.24

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