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 whos