Desert Divers

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In Desert Divers - part travel book, part literary history, part confession - Sven Lindqvist follows the paths of the early twentieth century Europeans into the Sahara and drags to the surface the history of colonial slaughter and exploitation that enabled Europeans to conduct their one-sided affair with the desert.

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'A polemical adventure in travel, criticism and autobiography, Desert Divers opens up a vast discursive territory. It is gripping from start to finish' Geoff Dyer 'A poem to the Sahara, and those whom it has obsessed; language as bare and hard as sand and gravel...Sensational' Guardian 'Sven Lindqvist is one of the most original and imaginative authors working at the end of the twentieth century' Richard Gott 'This is writing with a conscience that once again shows the enormous and provocative possibilities of the travel book' Sunday Times

Author Bio

Sven Lindqvist was born in 1932 in Stockholm, where he still lives. He has travelled extensively throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, and is the author of 30 books, including the acclaimed Exterminate All the Brutes and A History of Bombing.