A startling, original and gripping book about the most human kind of history, done with a novelist's eye. It is the narrative about the New world, Empire, African slavery and Revolution. In this brilliant and thought provoking book V S Naipaul narrates two inked themes: the grinding down of aborigines during he long rivalries of the foolish El Dorado quest; and then two hundred years later, in the man made wilderness, the man made horror of the new slave colony. ...
