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The Loss of Eldorado: A History
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
November 1, 1984
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780394721248
ISBN-10
0394721241
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$5.95
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
The Middle Passage | Rough Guide to Trinidad & Tobago | In a Free State | An Area of Darkness | Miguel Street | A Bend in the River | A House for Mr. Biswas | The Masque of Africa | El Dorado: the Search for the Fabled City of Gold
The Middle Passage | Rough Guide to Trinidad & Tobago | In a Free State | An Area of Darkness | Miguel Street | A Bend in the River | A House for Mr. Biswas | The Masque of Africa | El Dorado: the Search for the Fabled City of Gold
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Focuses on the two widely separated historical situations which called worldwide attention to the obscure island of Trinidad
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaulâhimself a native of Trinidadâshows how that delusion drew a small island into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries.
Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery. An accumulation of casual, awful detail takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the slave colony, where, in spite of various titles of nobility, only an opportunistic, near-lawless community exists, always fearful of slave suicide or poison, of African sorcery and revolt. Naipaul tells this labyrinthine story with assurance, withering irony, and lively sympathy. The result is historical writing at its highest level.
Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery. An accumulation of casual, awful detail takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the slave colony, where, in spite of various titles of nobility, only an opportunistic, near-lawless community exists, always fearful of slave suicide or poison, of African sorcery and revolt. Naipaul tells this labyrinthine story with assurance, withering irony, and lively sympathy. The result is historical writing at its highest level.
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About: Focuses on the two widely separated historical situations which called worldwide attention to the obscure island of Trinidad
About: Focuses on the two widely separated historical situations which called worldwide attention to the obscure island of Trinidad
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