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This book is important ... we, our rulers, and their stooges should read it ... it contains a message for our future -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian * Here is a book which has come out of risk and years of thought -- John Berger This powerful book has haunted me for months * Sunday Times * Sven Lindqvist [was] one of the most original and imaginative authors working at the end of the twentieth century. Together with Bruce Chatwin and Claudio Magris, he has pioneered a genre where to travel in space is also to travel in time. -- Richard Gott Exemplary * Independent * This book should be school curriculum material * New Internationalist *

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Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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