The Loss of El Dorado: A History

V. S. Naipaul

Published by Andre Deutsch, London, 1969

About this Item

An immersive telling of the events of Venezuela and Trinidad, with reference to the legend of El Dorado. From Nobel Prize winner, V. S. Naipaul. The first edition.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Trinidadian-born British writer, V. S. Naipaul, draws from the Spanish-British colonial rivalry in the Orinoco basin to examine the obsessive quest for gold. He particularly looks at Sir Walter Raleigh's voyages with a novel-like depth unlike other historical works.The book also looks at Venezuela's struggle for independence from Spain in the early 19th century.Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 and the Nobel Prize in literature in 2001.With illustrated maps to the endpapers and a frontispiece containing a plan of a port. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. With black and white marks to the boards. Minor wear to the extremities. Dust wrapper is very smart, with minor edgewear. Neat reinforcements to the spine head and tail. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 915Y10

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Loss of El Dorado: A History

Publisher: Andre Deutsch, London

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed

Edition: First edition.

Book Type: book