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Book

King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa

Call Number

  • 967.51 H6854 (CEN)

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Edition

Second Mariner Books edition

Publication Information

Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

Physical Description

xiii, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Summary

Chronicles the life of King Leopold II of Belgium and discusses how he plundered the Congo, how his people tried to overthrow him, and other related topics.

Notes

Reprint. Originally published in Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Contents

  • Prologue: "The traders area kidnapping our people"
  • Part I: Walking into fire. "I shall not give up the chase" ; The fox crosses the stream ; The magnificent cake ; "The treaties must grant us everything" ; From Florida to Berlin ; Under the Yacht Club flag ; The first heretic ; Where there aren't no Ten Commandments ; Meeting Mr. Kurtz ; The wood that weeps ; A secret society of murderers
  • Part II: A King at bay. David and Goliath ; Breaking into the thieves' kitchen ; To flood his deeds with day ; A reckoning ; "Journalists won't give you recipes" ; No man is a stranger ; Victory? ; The Great Forgetting
  • Looking back : a personal afterword.

Subjects

Added Authors

Barbara Kingsolver