That name wrought my mother speechless! I had asked her who he was, she blushed deeply and stuttered while looking for the words. Finally she told me that he was a despicable dreadful man and I should not go any further in questioning anyone about this dreadful man. This came from a catholic woman from an Irish family in England.
When I read the book last month (March2013) I had learned a lot more than what I knew, which was that he was a Knight of the realm and a homosexual and that there were some 'diaries'.
This well written book took me to many different places and I met a man very different than had been intimated by my mother in 1950 or whenever it was. The times he witnessed in Africa/Belgian Congo and in Brazil/Peru, reflected the book I had read about the Amazonian rubber industry from the eyes of an Englishman who also spent time in the horrors of a rubber plantation, but he was more interested in stealing rubber tree seedlings and shipping them to the Far East.
I enjoyed this book as it opened my eyes to Casement's Irish views and to his seemingly innocent homosexual encounters in both Congo and Amazonia, both by todays standards, hardly worth mentioning.
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