Hardcover reprint of the original 1913 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. All foldouts have been masterfully reprinted in their original form. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Hardenburg, W. E. Walter Ernest. The Putumayo, The Devil's Paradise; Travels In The Peruvian Amazon Region And An Account Of The Atrocities Committed Upon The Indians Therein. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Hardenburg, W. E. Walter Ernest. The Putumayo, The Devil's Paradise; Travels In The Peruvian Amazon Region And An Account Of The Atrocities Committed Upon The Indians Therein, . London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. Subject: Peruvian Amazon Company, ltd

Excerpt from The Putumayo, the Devil's Paradise: Travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an Account of the Atrocities Committed Upon the Indians Therein The extracts from Sir Roger Casement's Report, which form part of this work', are made by per mission oi h.m. Stationery Officef Acknowledge ment is also made for assistance rendered, both to the Rev. J. H. Harris, Organising Secretary of the anti-slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, and to the Editor of T ruth. Portions of mr..hardenburg's accounts have been omitted, and some revisions necessarily made, but the statements of adventures and the occurrences remain as in the original and stand upon their own responsibility. The um pleasing task of editing this book - Whichxstands as perhaps the most terrible page in the Whole history of commercialism - has been undertaken in the hope that permanent betterment in the condition of the unfortunate aborigines of South America will be brought about. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

THE STORY OF AN IMPERIAL TRAGEDY THAT SENT SHOCKWAVES AROUND THE WORLD 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. Accusations against the Peruvian rubber baron Julio César Arana had been making their way back to London, and the rumors were on everybody's lips: Arana was enslaving, torturing, and murdering the local Indians. Arana's Peruvian Amazon Company, with its headquarters in London's financial heart, was responsible. Casement was outraged by what he uncovered: nearly 30,000 Indians had died to produce 4,000 tons of rubber. When Casement's 700-page report of the violence was published in London in 1912, it set off reverberations throughout the world. People were appalled that murderous acts were being carried out under the cloak of British respectability. The Peruvian Amazon Company was forced into liquidation, and its board of directors was publicly shamed. From the Amazonian rain forests to the streets of London and Washington, D.C., Jordan Goodman recounts a tragedy whose exposure in 1912 drew back the curtain on exploitation and the wholesale abuse of human rights. Drawing on a wealth of original research, The Devil and Mr. Casement is a haunting story of modern capitalism with enormous contemporary political resonance.