The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman

The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness

Jordan Goodman

322 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative medium-paced
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In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Casement was outraged by what he...

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