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| #1811811 in Books | 1977-10-27 | 1977-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.71 x5.04l, | File type: PDF | 400 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Proof that all of our history should be written by novelists|By P. J. Keating|This was the first book by Naipaul that I read, decades ago, and I fell in love with it. A beautiful book about a truly terrible subject. Nothing else by Naipaul quite lives up to this amazing book.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| One Star| |“History as literature, meticulously researched and masterfully written.” –The New York Times Book ||“A formidable achievement. . . . No historian has attempted to weave together in so subtle a manner the threads of the most com
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. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows 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.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Loss of El Dorado: A History | V. S. Naipaul.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
