The middle passage: impressions of five colonial societies (Record no. 6660)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 033048706X |
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| Classification number | 917.290452 |
| Item number | NAI/M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Naipaul, V.S. |
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| Title | The middle passage: impressions of five colonial societies |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Picador |
| Year of publication | 2001 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 243p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | V. S. Naipaul’s first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest – his birthplace. In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and the Caribbean societies of four adjacent countries, Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica. Haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that it can scarcely comprehend its end, Naipaul catches this poor, topsy-turvy world at a critical moment, a time when racial and political assertion had yet to catch up – a perfect subject for the acute understanding and dazzling prose of this great writer. <br/>‘Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.<br/>’ Evelyn Waugh ‘Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain’ New Statesman |
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| Topical Term | English Literature |
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| Topical Term | English Fiction |
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| Topical Term | Travel |
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| Topical Term | Caribbean Area |
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| Topical Term | Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 |
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| Topical Term | West Indies |
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| Topical Term | Nationalism |
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| Topical Term | Social conditions |
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| Topical Term | Decolonization |
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| Topical Term | South America |
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| Koha item type | BK |
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| Collection code | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Stack | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 23/05/2014 | 195.00 | 917.290452 NAI/M | 11852 | BK |