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The Loss of El Dorado - A Colonial History (Paperback)
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The Loss of El Dorado - A Colonial History (Paperback)
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List price R387
Loot Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
You Save R75 (19%)
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At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two
linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long
rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold;
and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of the new slave
colony. In The Loss of El Dorado, V. S. Naipaul shows how the
alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad
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. And through an accumulation of
casual, awful detail, he takes us as close as we can get to
day-to-day life in the Caribbean slave plantations - at the time
thought to be more brutal than their American equivalents. In this
brilliantly researched book, living characters large and small are
rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative -
about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution - which is
never less than gripping.
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