The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands (New York Review Books Classics)
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In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Travellerâ€™s Tree, Leigh Fermorâ€™s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. Here we watch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty roads of the countryside and the broad avenues of former colonial capitals, equally at home among the peasant and the elite, the laborer and the artist. He listensÂ to steel drum bands, delights in the Congo dancing that closes out Havanaâ€™s Carnival, and observes vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generous curiosity and easy erudition that readers will recognize from his subsequent classic accounts A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.
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Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-01-11
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781590173800

The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands (New York Review Books Classics)