"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
Title: Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide Author: Sven Lindqvist ISBN: 9781565843592 Publisher: The New Press Published: 2007 Binding: Paperback Language: English Publisher Description: Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe's genocidal colonization of Africa--and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned "A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist's astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful." --David Levering Lewis "Exterminate All the Brutes," Sven Lindqvist's widely accla