Saharan Journey

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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.

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Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively though Asia, Africa and Latin America. Since 1955 he has published 30 books of essays, aphorisms, autobiography, documentary prose, travel and reportage, 10 of which are available in English, including: Bench Press, Desert Divers, Exterminate All the Brutes and Terra Nullius. Lindqvist lives in Sweden with his wife and children.