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The Loss of El Dorado, by the Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, is a history book about Venezuela and Trinidad. It was published in 1969. The title refers to the El Dorado legend.
- V. S. Naipaul
- 1969
Turning his attention to his homeland, Trinidad, Naipaul reveals a lost history of Spanish, French and English colonialism, all fueled by the frantic, bloody search for El Dorado. Naipaul's three-part structure makes sense and is filled with remarkable anecdotes of greed, folly, slavery, barbarity, and one or two glimpses of decency and humanity.
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Turning his attention to his homeland, Trinidad, Naipaul reveals a lost history of Spanish, French and English colonialism, all fueled by the frantic, bloody search for El Dorado. Naipaul's three-part structure makes sense and is filled with remarkable anecdotes of greed, folly, slavery, barbarity, and one or two glimpses of decency and humanity.
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- Taschenbuch
14. Sept. 2011 · The loss of El Dorado : a history. by. Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-. Publication date. 1984. Topics. El Dorado. Publisher. New York : Vintage Books.
7. Apr. 2021 · Previous edition: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1973. With an index. THE THIRD MARQUISATE (1592-1618) -- The mountain of crystal -- Fathers and sons. THE SPANISH CAPITULATION (1633-1797) -- The ghost province -- The three revolutions.
16. März 2011 · 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...
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.
