A01=Sven Lindqvist
Author_Sven Lindqvist
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Product details
- ISBN 9781862075078
- Weight: 122g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the first half of the twentieth centruy, 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?
In Desert Divers - part travel book, part literary history and part confession - Sven Lindqvist follows their paths 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.
Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America.
