The loss of El Dorado : a history / PRINT
V.S. Naipaul.
- [1st American ed.].
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 1970, 1969. London : Andre Deutsch, 1969.
- 335, vi pages : maps (on lining papers) ; 22 cm
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335) and index.
Prologue: the dispossessed conquistador -- pt. I: The third marquisate. The mountain of crystal -- Fathers and sons -- pt. II: The Spanish capitulation. The ghost province -- The three revolutions -- pt. III: The torture of Luisa Calderon. The fourth revolution -- "Apply the torture" -- The executioner's list -- The victims I -- The victims II -- The inheritors -- Epilogue: The death of Jacquet -- Postscript.