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

by Bertrand Taithe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199231214
• ISBN13: 9780199231218
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.8" x 5.4"