Walter Hardenburg

Illustration from Hardenburg's book The Putumayo, the devil's paradise

Walter Ernest Hardenburg (* 1886 ; † 1942 ) was an American engineer .

Hardenburg was accidentally kidnapped by Julio César Arana's people on a trip through the Putumayo during the rubber boom in 1907 and was an eyewitness to the genocide of indigenous people on the Peruvian-Colombian border. His impressions, published under the title The Devil's Paradise , caused a scandal.

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Commons : Walter Hardenburg - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Mirror article by Norman Lewis .
Literature by and about Walter Hardenburg in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Literature by and about Walter Hardenburg in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

personal data
SURNAME	Hardenburg, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hardenburg, Walter Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	1886
DATE OF DEATH	1942