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The Loss of El Dorado : A Colonial History by V. S. Naipaul is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” ( The New York Times ). The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. 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. 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. An accumulation of casual, awful detail takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the slave colony, where, in spite of various titles of nobility, only an opportunistic, near-lawless community exists, always fearful of slave suicide or poison, of African sorcery and revolt. Naipaul tells this labyrinthine story with assurance, witheri

Who reads The Loss of El Dorado : A Colonial History?

Author

V. S. Naipaul

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400030767

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.63 / 5 (165 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13