Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist

Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven LindqvistOver 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

and a celebration of all those middle-aged women who keep the world turning

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'Niamh's words will resonate with anyone who has suffered loss but ultimately she offers hope

and of preserving the balance between the needs of humans and nature have never been more timely

and a couple who have made their life observing its wonders

in shocking and intimate detail

best known for the poem 'Howl' (1956)

and he earned his keep ashore by helping to scout a safe harbour and landing site for his bedraggled and ill shipmates

From the Number 1 bestselling author of Our Little Cruelties and Skin Deep

the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought

it is that something itself

has not left Norwich