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Hardcover The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa Book

ISBN: 0199231214

ISBN13: 9780199231218

The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa

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Historian Bertrand Taithe here offers a gripping account of one of the most disturbing atrocities to take place during the European "scramble for Africa," a real life story that prefigures fictional accounts such as The Heart of Darkness . The Voulet-Chanoine mission left Dakar in 1898 for the Lake Chad region, hoping to establish effective borders between the French and British empires and "pacify" a notoriously belligerent region. The mission soon...

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