John Carlson

Revealing read about the extent and devastating impact of the British Empire from Crimeria to China to South Africa, and in the end, to the Sudan. In the midst of all of it in the mid to late 1800's was General Charles Gordon. A very complex figure, who cared and connected with local populations in ways unexpected for a protector of the Empire. The extent of slavery and slave trading within Africa and the Arab worlds is very revealing and deeply disturbing.