{"product_id":"natives-of-my-person-george-lamming-9780385552202","title":"Natives of My Person","description":"\u003cb\u003eGeorge Lamming--one of the Caribbean's most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre--reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnder imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal--a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant's power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, \u003ci\u003eNatives of My Person\u003c\/i\u003e plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama--one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, \u003ci\u003eNatives of My Person\u003c\/i\u003e, Lamming's masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Lamming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385552203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385552202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Outsider Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"George Lamming","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520122794239,"sku":"9780385552202","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a435f74-06d6-4dec-b7ae-afaabc7908be.jpg?v=1778740883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/natives-of-my-person-george-lamming-9780385552202","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}