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In critically acclaimed "Desert Divers" and "Exterminate all the Brutes", Sven Lindqvist travelled through Africa's deserts, and unearthed the cruelty of colonialism. Now he has done the same for Australia. Lindqvist travels through the south of country, lyrically describing its landscape, flora and fauna and geology, while also telling the history of the country, and revealing the shocking treatment of its Aboriginal peoples. He catalogues some truly shocking abuses, such as the rounding up of Aborigine women for transportation to the chillingly named "Isle of the Dead" for inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment; and the extensive forced separation of 'halfblood' children from their families to squalid, prison-like camps. Stretching from the formation of the Australian continent 600 million years ago to the 2002 hunger strikes in the Woomera detention camp, Terra Nullius leaves us with a strong sense of Australia as a piece of earth, steeped in geological and tragic human history.
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"...a welcome corrective to those travelogues that concentrate on
nothing but surfing and Sydney Harbour."
-- Waterstone's Books Quarterly
"The account it presents is heartbreaking and
graphic...Lindqvist's method is stylistically brilliant."
-- Scotland on Sunday
"This is an important and troubling book." -- Scotland on Sunday
"a master of worldly insight and stylistic precision... a work of
urgent necessity and a heart-warming marvel." -- Independent
"his unblinkered vision of the cruelty hidden behind the façade of
modern Australia..." -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly
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nothing but surfing and Sydney Harbour."
-- Waterstone's Books Quarterly
"The account it presents is heartbreaking and
graphic...Lindqvist's method is stylistically brilliant."
-- Scotland on Sunday
"This is an important and troubling book." -- Scotland on Sunday
"a master of worldly insight and stylistic precision... a work of
urgent necessity and a heart-warming marvel." -- Independent
"his unblinkered vision of the cruelty hidden behind the façade of
modern Australia..." -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly
Sven Lindqvist was born in 1932 in Stockholm, where he still lives. He has traveled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America, and is the author of over thirty books, including 'Exterminate all the Brutes', Desert Divers, and A History of Bombing.
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1862078955
- ISBN 13 9781862078956
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