Congo Solo : Misadventures Two Degrees North - Emily Hahn

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Congo Solo

Misadventures Two Degrees North

By: Emily Hahn, Ken Cuthbertson

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Paperback | 18 July 2011

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A woman who lived life on her own terms, Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer when Congo Solo was published. Here - restored to the form she had intended - is Hahn's unforgettable narrative, a vivid, provocative, and at times disturbing first-hand account of the racism, brutality, sexism, and exploitation that were everyday life realities under Belgium's iron-fisted colonial rule. Until now, the few copies of Congo Solo in circulation were the adulterated version, which the author altered after pressure from her publisher and threats of litigation from the main character's family. This edition makes available a lost treasure of women's travel writing that shocks and impresses, while shedding valuable light on the gender and race politics of the period.

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"There is a long chain of accounts by literary travellers to the Congo over more than a century, and it is good to have one such revealing narrative carefully restored to an uncensored version at last. The chilling episode at its heart reminds one of the cruel megalomania of Joseph Conrad's Mr. Kurtz." Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost

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Non-Fiction Travel & Holidays Travel Writing History Regional & National History African History Biographies & True Stories Biographies Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xiii
Congo SOlo
Voyage Out	p. 3
To the Middle of the Map	p. 19
Penge	p. 33
Home and Hospital	p. 51
Matope	p. 62
Death and the Census	p. 83
Malaria	p. 99
Angelique	p. 105
Monkeys and Men	p. 122
No Bananas	p. 128
The Villain in Avakubi	p. 147
Elephants	p. 160
Administration and Amputation	p. 172
Kayumba's	p. 181
Come to Judgment	p. 199
White Hot Mad	p. 210
Where My Caravan	p. 231
Afterword	p. 257
Glossary	p. 259
Grace Flandreau's impression of Patrick Putnam (1928)	p. 261
Fictionalised Account of Putnam's Rage from the 1933 Edition of Congo Solo	p. 263
Selected Bibliography	p. 271
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