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A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
One man's lifelong search for a house of his own, across colonial Trinidad. The map runs from the sugar country of Caroni where Mohun Biswas is born, through the market town of Chaguanas and the family compound he marries into, to the capital, Port of Spain, and the small house in St James that is finally his.
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked alone on a tropical island near the mouth of the Orinoco, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years wresting a life from the wilderness, until a footprint in the sand, and the man Friday, change everything. Defoe frames the survival tale with a real geography: the departure from England against his father's wishes, the Brazil plantation he abandons for one last voyage, and the Caribbean island, drawn from the seas off Trinidad and the Orinoco delta, on which he is cast away.
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