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The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French and Dutch -- in the West Indies
The Middle Passage Impressions of Five Societies British French and Dutch in the West Indies Author:V. S. Naipaul Naipaul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is both a journey to the familiar and to the strange and Naipaul records it all with immense sensitivity, honesty and clear analysis. He journeys to British Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica and fo... more »rms a provocative and at times piercingly funny study of societies whose common heritage of colonialism and slavery is examined with unique insight.« less