Caribbean category: 2932 books
by Marlon Lett
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
I wrote this poetry book to share my experiences and the other things in my life that are dear to me.
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In 1887 Harper's Magazine sent Lafcadio Hearn to the West Indies to write a series of articles on the area. Following his time there, he wrote 'Two Years in the French West Indies', in 1890, chronicling his observations and experiences in the region. He is probably best known for his writings on Japan,...
by William Seabrook
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
"The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read … [an] immensely important book." — New York Evening Post
"A series of excellent stories about one of the most interesting corners of the American world, told by a keen and sensitive person who knows how to...
by Kwame Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Dawes is very well-known and respected in literary (and academic) circles.
Dawes is a mentor of Marlon James's and also works closely on various collaborations with Colin Channer, Chris Abani, etc.
Though stylistically different, Bivouac shares themes with Marlon James's Man Booker Prize...
Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work...
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...
Imagining Our Americas
Toward a Transnational Frame
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North...
by Erica Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands are a small archipelago of islands belonging to Ecuador in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The islands are quite remote and isolated, lying some 1000 km (620 miles) west of the South American continent. The Galapagos...
Cuba Travel Guide
Culture - Sightseeing - Activities - Hotels - Nightlife - Restaurants - Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
(approx. 223 pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet access...
by Dalia Antonia Muller
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically...
Voice of the Leopard
African Secret Societies and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross...
by Gary Sweeting
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Cheat Sheet for Your Trip to Nassau in the Bahamas is a list of things that can help make sure you have a great trip and have no hiccups with the typical things that can go wrong. There are also some suggestions of places you should and see.
The author hopes that this information will be of...
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba
La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Montserrat Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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