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The Middle Passage

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The Middle Passage Synopsis

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.

'Naipaul travels with the artist's eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.' 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

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780330522953
Publication date: 17th June 2011
Author: V S Naipaul
Publisher: Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 243 pages
Genres: Travel writing
Colonialism and imperialism
Slavery and abolition of slavery