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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
14 de set. de 2011 · The loss of El Dorado : a history : Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
7 de abr. de 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.
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 of Spanish and English colonial designs and a mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries.
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The land of El Dorado had never really been found, so its loss was the loss of an ideal, a myth--a loss of imagination, feeble as it might have been. The epilogue points up the other...
16 de mar. de 2011 · Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years...
Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery.
