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From: book reviews Category: Books Date: 01 June 2007 Time: 07:15 AM Review: Nice title. Nice paperback cover, a wood cut ship afloat on a rectangle of gold. The book is weird for Naipaul. Just history. Makes me sleepy, blah did this deblah did that, sir blahblah did something else. Is good though, makes you feel a sharp prick of slavery's horror, the devil's in the detail, cold-blooded legalisation of humans into pieces of property.