The Loss of El Dorado

The Loss of El Dorado

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The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the sixteenth century belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay the fabulous kingdom of El Dorado. Two centuries of multinational intrigue followed, personified in the rivalled quest for the mythical kingdom of gold between the aging conquistador Antonio de Berrio and Sir Walter Ralegh, and culminating in the brutal stewardship of Thomas Picton, the English governor put on trial for the torture of a fourteen-year-old mulatto girl. Relating this labyrinthine story with clarity and novelistic drama, V. S. Naipaul accomplishes an unparalleled feat of historical writing.

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Weight 0.29 kg
Dimensions 2.01 × 12.98 × 20.4 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

Canada
Author(s)

Format
Language

Pages

400
Publisher

Year Published

2003-4-8
Imprint

ISBN 10

0676975410
About The Author

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction and the recipient of numerous honours, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

“History as literature, meticulously researched and masterfully written.” — The New York Times Book Review

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