The Loss of El Dorado de Naipaul, V.S - 2001

Pan Macmillan. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Pan MacMillan / Picador, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Corrected Edition. Second printing. Very Good. Text block tanned, but unmarked. Foxing to top edge. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 376 pages. "What I had known of Trinidad as a child had seemed to me ordinary, unplanned, just there, with nothing like a past. But the past was there: in the schoolyard, below the saman tree, we stood perhaps on the site of Dominique Cert's Bel-Air estate, where in 1803 the slave commandeur or headman, out of a twisted love for his master, had tried to poison the other slaves. More haunting than this was the thought of the vanished aborigines, on whose land and among whose spirits we all lived." It is the most human kind of history, done with a novelist's eye. Living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution which is… Leer más

Paperback. Very Good.

Picador. 2001 Picador corrected edition paperback; Very Good, clean condition, lightly aged in storage else near as new; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Paperback. 2001.

Picador 2001 Paperback. Good.

Picador, 2001-09-21. Paperback. New. 2.7919 cent in x 19.5431 cent in x 12.9442 cent in.