Saharan Journey – Sven Lindqvist

Description

Exterminate All the Brutes and Desert Divers together in one volume. Two of the best travelogues ever written about Africa.

Condition: Excellent

333 Pages, Paperback, 20x13x2cm

Published for the first time in one volume, Sven Lindqvist’s uncategorizable, beautiful and angry books about the African continent and the legacy of colonialism. Exterminate All the Brutes takes us on an intellectual trip to ‘the heart of the darkness’ of the European mind and its attitude towards Africa, tracing the legacy of European explorers, missionaries, politicians and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onwards.

Its sequel, Desert Divers, describes Lindqvist’s journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams.

• Contents: The book combines Exterminate All the Brutes (an intellectual journey investigating the roots of European racism and genocide) and Desert Divers (a narrative of his travels in Algeria and Morocco).
• Themes: It addresses the history of European explorers, colonial atrocities, and the attitudes that led to the “final solution”.
• Style: Lindqvist uses a non-linear, often reflective, and sometimes angry tone to uncover the hidden, uncomfortable history of the Sahara.
• Context: It examines how writers like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and others were drawn to the Sahara.