A Swarthy Boy: A Childhood in British Guiana

by Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Mittelholzer offers a beautifully written account of his distinctly eccentric Anglo-Germanic family so enmeshed in their sense of colonial Englishness that they experienced Guyana as an alien and hostile environment; of the Victorian domestic life of their part of the town of New Amsterdam; and the rigid race and class hierarchies that kept British Guiana hidebound and immobile under a snobbish and uncreative elite, and his own saving through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845233557
• ISBN13: 9781845233556
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 180 Pages