The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo

by Robert Edgerton and Robert B. Edgerton

Written over a century ago, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness continues to dominate our vision of the Congo, unlikely as it might seem that a late-Victorian novella could encapsulate a country roughly equal in size to the United States east of the Mississippi. Conrad's Congo is hell itself, a place where civilization won't take, where literal and metaphor darknesses converge, and where human conduct, unmoored from social (Western, in other words)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312304862
• ISBN13: 9780312304867
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"