Roger Casement

About the Book

A biography extending from Casement's Irish origins to his work in Africa and South America as British consul. Casement's official reports on the atrocities committed against the rubber gatherers brought him fame and led to reform of the rubber trade in the Congo and the Putumayo. His involvement in the recruitment of Irish prisoners of war to fight against the British during the Great War caused him to be tried for treason and hanged in what is perhaps one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history, brought about in part by the leaking of passages from his shockingly homosexual Black Diaries, presented here in almost their entirety.

About the Author

William Bryant was born in California and worked in the Middle East since before the Gulf War. He has written two biographies of Alfred Russel Wallace and an erotic novel, Ross: T. E. Lawrence Discovers America. Roger Casement was originally commissioned by Barney Rosset, the first US publisher of the Black Diaries.