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Aug 04, 2023
Matt Goncalves
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Another old novel that has not aged well. It's curious how such a popular character of fiction persists today despite it's problematic origins. This book was creative and well put together but it is smeared with pro-colonialism and phrenology heavy racism. It champions the protagonist as some Olympic figure of white features and a solitary conqueror of both the wild and civilized world. I kept cringing at some of the parts of this book and carried on knowing that it was written in the 1910s and
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