Human Cargo
Subtitle: A Journey Among Refugees
Publisher: Picador
Published: March 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312425616
Subjects: Emigration & Immigration; Political Advocacy; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Refugees; Sociology
First sentence: When Henri Dunant arrived home from the battle of Solferino in June 1859, full of disgust and pity at the treatment of wounded soldiers, Geneva was a small, pious, scholarly city, where people lived modestly and regarded themselves as enlightened conservatives.