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<BA provocative journey through the dark history of the creation of white Australia, exposing the hidden genocide of the Aboriginal people. "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races." —Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man "Terra nullius"—no man's land—was the legal fiction employed to justify the white invasion of Australia. Aboriginal lands were declared "terra nullius" because, it was claimed, they were inhabited by people who would soon die out—and who could be helped on the way to extinction if they lingered. Author of the acclaimed "Exterminate All the Brutes" and A History of Bombing , Sven Lindqvist is one of the most innovative writers and historians at work today. He brings his original sensibility to bear as he travels 12,000 kilometers through so-called no man's land in search of places where belief in the rights of the white man and the inevitable extinction of the "lower races" were put into practice. The world the Aborigines had known for centuries ended as young boys were kidnapped to dive for pearls, then whipped and abandoned whe

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Author

Sven Lindqvist

Publisher

New Press, The

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781862078956

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, American Studies

Rating

3.98 / 5 (155 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13