Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Debate Editorial
ISBN: 9788483064894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 407
Book Description
La pérdida de El Dorado
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Debate Editorial
ISBN: 9788483064894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 407
Book Description
Publisher: Debate Editorial
ISBN: 9788483064894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 407
Book Description
The Loss of El Dorado
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times). 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. 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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times). 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. 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.
La pérdida de El Dorado
Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Dorado
Languages : es
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Dorado
Languages : es
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Loss of El Dorado
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330487078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This history of Trinidad exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture. Essentially two stories, the first tells of Walter Raleigh's raid on Trinidad and South America in 1595, the second, the attempt by Britain 200 years later to set up a revolution against the Spanish Empire in Trinidad.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330487078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This history of Trinidad exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture. Essentially two stories, the first tells of Walter Raleigh's raid on Trinidad and South America in 1595, the second, the attempt by Britain 200 years later to set up a revolution against the Spanish Empire in Trinidad.
The Loss of El Dorado
Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Focusing on the early 19th century, when British occupants inflicted a reign of terror on the island's black population, V.S. Naipaul's recreation of the history of Trinidad exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of society.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Focusing on the early 19th century, when British occupants inflicted a reign of terror on the island's black population, V.S. Naipaul's recreation of the history of Trinidad exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of society.
The Loss of El Dorado
Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trinidad
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trinidad
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Loss of El Dorado
Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Dorado
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Dorado
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Loss of El Dorado
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Dorado
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Dorado
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.
La Ciudad Perdida de El Dorado
Author: Blake Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781088147740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781088147740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
El Dorado
Author: Jacob Adrien Van Heuvel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorado
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorado
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description