The Loss of El DoradoBy: V. S. Naipaul Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature From the Booker Prize winning author, The Loss of El Dorado shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a Mecca for treasure seekers, slave traders, and revolutionaries. At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding