'Exterminate All The Brutes' (Paperback)

Sven Lindqvist (author)

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Paperback 192 Pages
Published: 04/10/2018

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Synopsis

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

Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781847081988
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 270 g
Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 14 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

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