Black Livingstone a true tale of adventure in the nineteenth-century Congo /
The Belgian Congo at the turn of the century was the world of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and a brutal time in African history, when European companies were slaughtering the Congolese in an effort to harvest the rubber needed for telegraph and electrical cables. William Sheppa...
| Основен автор: | Kennedy, Pagan, 1962- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Viking,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=562588 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Black Livingstone. |
| Резюме: |
The Belgian Congo at the turn of the century was the world of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and a brutal time in African history, when European companies were slaughtering the Congolese in an effort to harvest the rubber needed for telegraph and electrical cables. William Sheppard was there to record the atrocities and to help pioneer a worldwide civil rights movement on behalf of the Congolese people. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 17, 2013). Maps also on lining papers. |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xviii, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Формат: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780988225237 0988225239 9780988225244 0988225247 |