The devil and Mr. Casement : one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness

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ISBN: 9780374138400 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0374138400 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
viii, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st American ed
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010

General Note:	"Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Verso Books, Great Britain"--T.p. verso
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and index
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: La selva comes to London -- Across the Andes -- Iquitos and rubber -- Arana's world -- Saldaña Rocca's world -- Over to the Foreign Office -- An officer and a gentleman -- Our man in the Putumayo -- Eyes of another race -- The uttermost parts of the Earth -- La Chorrera -- Godforsaken hell-haunted wilds -- A system of armed extortion -- Deus ex machina -- The veil over the Putumayo mystery -- Publish and be damned -- An international scandal -- The old gang -- The canon and the board -- La selva returns to Parliament -- The Peruvian, the American, and the Select Committee -- The devil and Mr. Casement -- Epilogue: a crime against humanity -- Dramatis personae and chronology.