num_pages: 144
description: This book follows the author on a personal journey into the Sahara and examination into the racist assumptions of those writers who have gone before him. Taking as a metaphor the divers who cleaned out desert wells, Lindqvist drags to the surface the story of colonial slaughter and sexual exploitation which contaminate his boyhood idols.
language: English
title: Desert Divers
titlecomplete: Desert Divers
genres: History, Morocco, Sweden, France, Travel, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 172
publisher: Granta Books