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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-31 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a
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Authors: Alice Duhan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commo
The Traveller's Tree
Language: en
Pages: 391
Authors: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-10 - Publisher: John Murray

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In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whos
Myths and Realities of Caribbean History
Language: en
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Authors: Basil A. Reid
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-12 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions pr
Crossing the Line
Language: en
Pages: 65
Authors: Simon J. Bronner
Categories: Social Science
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For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have been subjected to an elaborate hazing at sea called “crossing the line.” Typicall