Author: BARTTELOT, Walter George
Title: Journal et correspondance du Major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot Commandant l'Arrière-Colonne dans l'Expédition Stanley a la recherche et au secours d'Emin Pacha.
Description: Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1891. 18 x 11.5 cm. [6],361 pp. Contemporary half cloth. With 2 folding maps. -''Réponse au livre de M.H.M. Stanley 'Dans les Ténèbres de l'Afrique' '' - Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (1859-1888) was a British Army officer, who became notorious after his allegedly brutal and deranged behaviour during his disastrous command of the rear column left in the Congo during H. M. Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He has often been identified as one of the sources for the character of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. [Wikipedia]. - Good copy

Keywords: afrika / africa; congo


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