Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)
Some Chinese Ghosts / Chita / Two Years in the French West Indies / Youma / selected journalism and letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-consciously decadent literary style, but he was also a tough-minded and keenly observant reporter, with an eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and occasionally the gruesome. The writings of his American...
by Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson, III
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on...
Vacation in St. Thomas… A Tropical Island In The U.S. Virgin Islands
A Complete Island Travel Guide For Tips On Places To Stay In St. Thomas, Restaurants In St. Thomas And All The Things To Do In St. Thomas To Help You Plan A Hassle-Free Caribbean Vacation In This Breathtaking Island Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
It is one island out of a group of islands in what is known as America’s very own Caribbean paradise.
St. Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands, despite having a very mountainous landscape, is internationally well-known as a water lover’s paradise. Everywhere is scenery of emerald hills and...
by Keith Whiting
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Surrounded by miles of magnificent white sand beaches, protected by coral reefs and brushed by the constant breeze of the trade winds, Barbados is a swimmers paradise. The west coast beaches are calm and lapped by the Caribbean. The south coast has small to medium waves that are great for windsurfing...
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to the Preface: "During a trip to the Lesser Antilles in the summer of 1887, the writer of the following pages, landing at Martinique, fell under the influence of that singular spell which the island has always exercised upon strangers, and by which it has earned its poetic name,--Le Pays des...
by Keith Whiting
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Surrounded by miles of magnificent white sand beaches, protected by coral reefs and brushed by the constant breeze of the trade winds, Barbados is a swimmer’s paradise. The west coast beaches are calm and lapped by the Caribbean. The south coast has small to medium waves that are great for windsurfing...
Paradise Destroyed
Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner
Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements—earth, wind, fire, and water—as well as a collapsing sugar...
The Pirates of the West Indies in 17th Century
True Story of the Fiercest Pirates of the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Clarence Henry Haring was an important historian of Latin America and a pioneer in initiating the study of Latin American colonial institutions among scholars in the United States. Excerpt: "Christopher Columbus, a Genoese sailor in the service of the Castilian Crown, wishing to find a western...
by Ruby Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Roatan is the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras in the Caribbean. Situated just 40 miles north of the mainland, the island is the most popular tourist and cruise ship destination in Honduras. Roatan offers beautiful beaches, relaxed, friendly locals and a mild climate. Roatan is a small, narrow...
by Jacob Gelt Dekker
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
An unconventional and engaging take on Caribbean history
After a life-changing diagnosis, Dutch entrepreneur Jacob Gelt Dekker decides to take a step into the unknown. Setting sail from his home in Key West, he embarks on an odyssey around the Caribbean islands, navigating treacherous waters...
by Peter Grotjan
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
A brief account of the adventurers of a Philadelphia merchant sailing the piratical waters of the West Indies in the early 19th century.
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as "the Windrush writers" in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush,...
by Felix L. Oswald, Edith B. Blake
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Had those islands any aborigines when discovered by Europeans? If there were natives, do any of them remain?
The West Indies, or Antilles, consist of many hundreds, or even—reckoning keys or very small islands—several thousand islands varying in area from those which, like Cuba and Jamaica, number...
by Bartolome de las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolome de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.
Bartolome...