Desert Divers by Sven Lindqvist
In the first half of the twentieth century, European writers plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams. What did they hope to find? And what was really there?
Desert Divers
Summary
A personal journey into the Sahara and the racist assumptions of those writers who have gone before him. Taking as a metaphor the divers who cleaned out desert wells, Lindqvist drags to the surface the story of colonial slaughter and sexual exploitation which contaminate his boyhood idols.
Desert Divers Summary
About Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively though Asia, Africa and Latin America. 'Exterminate All the Brutes' is available from Granta Books.
Additional information
GOR004089600
9781862073593
1862073597
Desert Divers by Sven Lindqvist
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Granta Books
20000504
192
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