Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

by Robert Harms and Robert W. Harms

Book Overview

A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465028632
• ISBN13: 9780465028634
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"