Related Books

Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Christina Kullberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-31 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a
Myths and Realities of Caribbean History
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Basil A. Reid
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-12 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions pr
The Traveller's Tree
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-10 - Publisher: Hachette UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Prakash Kumar
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on this colonial industry. Charting the in
Crossing the Line
Language: en
Pages: 65
Authors: Simon J. Bronner
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have been subjected to an elaborate hazing at sea called “crossing the line.” Typicall