The killer trail : a colonial scandal in the heart of Africa /
The Killer Trail tells the tale of one of the most notorious atrocities to take place during the European 'scramble for Africa', a real life story of insane violence in the heart of an exotic continent that eerily prefigures fictional accounts such as The Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse N...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Killer Trail tells the tale of one of the most notorious atrocities to take place during the European 'scramble for Africa', a real life story of insane violence in the heart of an exotic continent that eerily prefigures fictional accounts such as The Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. The Voulet-Chanoine mission left Dakar in 1898 for the centre of Africa and the region of Lake Chad with the aim of establishing effective borders between the French and British empires while 'pacifying' a notoriously belligerent region. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199231218 0199231214 9780191571558 0191571555 1282383396 9781282383395 9786612383397 6612383399 |