Caribbean West Indies category: 1060 books
White Fury
A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire. Slavery was central to the eighteenth-century empire. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide To The Turks and Caicos Islands - Part II - The Turks Islands
Including Grand Turk, North Creek Anchorage, Hawksnest Anchorage, Salt Cay, and Great Sand Cay
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part II of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Turks and Caicos and covers the Turks Islands.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over the past 20 years, Stephen J. Pavlidis has...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands - Part V - Grenada
including Carriacou, Île de Ronde, and Kick 'em Jenny
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part V of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to the Windward Islands and covers Grenada, including Carriacou, Île de Ronde, and Kick ‘em Jenny.
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising guides written by Stephen J. Pavlidis. Over...
The Island Hopping Digital Guide To Puerto Rico - Part III - The East Coast
Including Palmas del Mar, Puerto del Rey Marina, Fajardo, Cayo Obispo, and Las Croabas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edition is Part III of The Island Hopping Digital Guide to Puerto Rico and covers the east coast of Puerto Rico, including Palmas del Mar, Puerto del Rey Marina, Fajardo, Cayo Obispo, and Las Croabas
The Island Hopping Digital Guides are the digital versions of the world-famous cruising...
by Karl Kahler
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
For a relatively small country, Costa Rica has an unusually diverse range of eco-systems to explore and adventurous activities to try. You'll visit rugged wilderness preserves and sleepy beach towns, spectacular orchid gardens and mineral hot springs at the foot of a recently-active volcano. There...
by Kurt Pitzer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
This guide offers a mix of practical travel information along with details of adventurous activities, which should be fun for everyone no matter what their age or ability. There is information on the history, culture, climate and geography of the island, covering its people and their roots, museums,...
by Karl Kahler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Adventurous, nature-loving travelers flock to Costa Rica and with good reason: there are few places anywhere that cram so many different eco-systems, and species of critters, within such a small area. This tautly written, exhaustively researched book will show you the way to make the most out of your vacation.
by Michael Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Andros Island, Travel Guide and Environmental Information. History, Vacation, Holiday, Environment. Andros, the second-largest island of the Cyclades, has a long and proud seafaring tradition and, conversely, is a walker’s paradise. Its wild mountains are cleaved by fecund valleys with bubbling...
by Roman Plesky
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Cuba is a fascinating country that is very different from the other countries in Latin America. Many people who think of Cuba, spontaneously have sugar cane, palm trees, salsa, coffee, rum, cigars, orchids, sun and crystal clear water in front of their eyes. But the island offers much more. Here is...
by Larry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
For Americans, Cuba has been the forbidden fruit–a skin of Detroit sheet metal covering a center of tasty rum, swirling cigar smoke and sandy beaches. Pointed prose, and over 200 pictures, tempt you to take a bite out of major cites and nibble on hidden beaches. Unvarnished opinions, with a uniquely...
by Andrew Delaplaine
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in SAN JUAN. Updated throughout the year, you'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.
“There is so much to do in San Juan that I was quite frankly surprised. We’d planned to spend some time...
by Gregory Bond
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
A trip to Cuba will take you back to the Latin America of a bygone age. American motorcars from the 1960s drive the streets and Fidel Castro’s brand of communism survives. Pictures of the revolutionary Che Guevara adorn huge buildings. The American embargo partially continues. Meanwhile, the friendly...
by Joy Lee Larocque
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Joy Lee Larocque, impressed from early childhood with a highly creative imagination, presents her interpretation "the magic of the Bahamas."