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The Middle Passage

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V. S. Naipaul''s first travel book, The Middle Passage , takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest - his birthplace. In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and the Caribbean societies of four adjacent countries, Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica. Haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that it can scarcely comprehend its end, Naipaul catches this poor, topsy-turvy world at a critical moment, a time when racial and political assertion had yet to catch up - a perfect subject for the acute understanding and dazzling prose of this great writer. ''Naipaul travels with the artist''s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.'' Evelyn Waugh ''Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence''s books on Italy, Greene''s on West Africa and Pritchett''s on Spain'' New Statesman

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Authors V S Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback
Released 17.06.2011
 
EAN 9780330522953
ISBN 978-0-330-52295-3
No. of pages 272
Dimensions 133 mm x 199 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, TRAVEL / South America / General, TRAVEL / Caribbean & West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, Colonialism & imperialism, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Colonialism and imperialism, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery

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