Description
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many more novels, stories and works of nonfiction than the immortal tales of Sherlock Holmes. His interests, also, were broad-ranging. Conan Doyle became outraged upon learning of the abuses of human life that were committed as a result of Belgian King Leopold II's efforts to conquer and strip the Congo of its natural resources. In little more than a week in 1909, he documented the human rights abuses in The Crime of the Congo. Two of the reformers who led the effort to stop the carnage in Africa were Edmund Dene Morel and Roger Casement, upon whom Conan Doyle based the characters of Edward Malone and Lord John Roxton in The Lost World. Although these two were later discredited and Conan Doyle repudiated them, his involvement with the tragedy of the Belgian Congo not only influenced The Crime of the Congo, but also his classic, The Lost World.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781603128483
ISBN10: 1603128484
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | Central
- Political Science | General
- Literary Collections | General