'Exterminate All The Brutes'

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title 'Exterminate All The Brutes'
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sven Lindqvist
SeriesGranta Editions
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 131
Category/GenreAfrican history
Colonialism and imperialism
The Holocaust
Travel writing
Classic travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9781847081988
ClassificationsDewey:305.80096
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Granta Books
Imprint Granta Books
Publication Date 4 October 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 the Brutes' - he braided an account of his experiences with a profound historical investigation, revealing to the reader with immediacy and cauterizing force precisely what Europe's imperial powers had exacted on Africa's people over the course of the preceding two centuries. Shocking, humane, crackling with imaginative energies and moral purpose, Exterminate All the Brutes stands as an impassioned, timeless classic. It is essential reading for anybody ready to come to terms with the brutal, racist history on which Europe built its wealth.

Author Biography

Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America.