Middle Passage

Naipaul's first travel book - travelling from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean Naipaul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is both a journey to the familiar and to the strange and Naipaul records it all with immense sensitivity, honesty and clear analysis. He journeys to British Guiana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica forms a provocative and at times piercingly tunny study of societies whose common heritage of colonialism and slavery is examined with unique insight. One of four backlist titles to be republished alongside hardback publication of Naipaul's new novel Half A Life in September 2001.