Island People: The Caribbean and the World

by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Book Overview

This masterwork of travel literature and history provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Caribbean and illuminates its fierce grip on the world's imagination.

From the moment Columbus gazed out from the deck of the Santa Mar a in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Forged by more than three centuries of mass migration and slave labor,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345804996
• ISBN13: 9780345804990
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"