The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
Häftad bok. Picador. 2001. 376 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. 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.
