The Loss of El Dorado: A History - Naipaul, V. S.

Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; This remarkable book is a history by a sensitive and highly intelligent novelist and as remote from professional history as one can imagine. The bulk of Naipaul's book deals with Trinidad after 1797, when the British occupied it in order to use it as a springboard for the revolution in South America, which was to open up to them vast opportunities for trade - another fantasy of greed ... This terrible cruelty and its complex consequences for the slaveholder and slave, for reactionary and radical, for revolutionary and renegade, is the heart of Naipaul's book. 
Near Fine
Soft cover
Penguin, 1973
Middlesex, UK