African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
368 p., A series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Caribbean: Raleigh's final, shameful expedition to the New World; Francisco Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America in the eighteenth century; the more subtle aggressions of the mid-twentieth-century English writer Foster Morris; the transforming and distorting peregrinations of Blair, the black Trinidadian revolutionary.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
380 p, Mr. Naipaul’s book consists of essays that explore his heritage and indirectly describes how history shapes personality; "A narrative on the subject of history and the people who made it. One follows the expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh before he was sent to the Tower. Another chronicles Francisco de Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America." (Publisher)