The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French and Dutch -- in the West Indies by V.S. Naipaul

The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French and Dutch -- in the West Indies

V.S. Naipaul

256 pages • first pub 1962 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging reflective slow-paced
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In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “That is man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially ...

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