The country's best known work of literature is ER Braithwaite's To Sir With Love, a cracking good yarn which was turned into a surprisingly good film (Sidney Poitier starred and Lulu sang the signature tune, remember?). Never mind that it was set in London. His epic poetry is more closely focused on the Caribbean experience.VS Naipaul held nothing back in his travelogue The Middle Passage. His brother Shiva satirized Guyanese intellectual life in The Hot Country and chronicled the appalling waste of life at the Jonestown massacre in Journey to Nowhere: a New World Tragedy (also published as Black and White).Evelyn Waugh wheezed his way through Guyana's rugged interior in the 1930s and wrote about his experiences in Ninety-Two Days.And if the subject of Evie hooks you, Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale deals with an Englishwoman visiting Guyana to research Waugh's time in the colony.The country's history and geography are revealed in David Lowenthals' West Indian Societies.