1996 Shortlist
A Way in the World
ABOUT
THE BOOK
V. S. Naipaul offers a personal choice of examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, including an imagined vision of Raleigh’s last expedition and an introduction to Francisco de Miranda, a would-be liberator and precursor to Bolívar, which are placed within a context of echoing modernity and framed by two more personal, heavily autobiographical sections sketching the narrator – an eloquent yet humble man of Indian descent who grew up in Trinidad but spent much of his adult life in England and Africa.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
10/05/1994
Country
Trinidad
Original Language
English
Publisher
Knopf Publishing
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