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Dealing with the natural history of birds, " Birds of the Eastern Caribbean" provides an up-to-date review of over 300 species to be found in the islands. For each species, the key features are identified, followed by notes on status, distribution, habitat, breeding biology, diet and behaviour. Photographs of many species are illustrated in colour for the first time. The guide includes helpful hints on bird-watching and bird photography. There is a useful bibliography, list of best bird-watching sites and an island by island check list of species recently observed, all included to help the visitor get the best out of bird-watching in the islands.
A atlas focusing on accurate mapping of al countries of the Caribbean, with thematic maps designed to illustrate the economic and social character of the region. World maps are incorporated from a series of Macmillan school atlases.
A very striking and curious story, founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter’s business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances. She takes a violent fancy to Rutherford, who is also embarrassed by the attentions of his half-caste housekeeper, Millicent. His housekeeper is urging him, with some success, to fall in with West Indian habits, when Mrs Palmer arrives. Millicent defies her and threatens her with the powers of Takoo, an Obeah man. Mrs Palmer, herself skilled in Obeah magic, puts ...
When Smiley Riley Jackson, the handsome water-taxi driver, turns up at sea with a bullet wound in his chest, the finger of suspicion quickly points to the Cunninghams, wealthy Americans visiting the Eastern Caribbean island of St Cecilia. Not only has Hazel Cunningham been spending a lot of time with the deceased behind her husbands back, she has also caught the attention of the close-knit community in LaPointe Sable by threatening to shoot someone, presumably with her husbands unlicensed pistol. A quest to bring the Americans to trial unfolds in paradise: but where, on an economically stagnant island cursed with incompetent, self-regarding officials and divided along racial and class-based lines, are truth and justice to be found?
An atlas that features modern digital cartography, Caribbean and world sections, and photographs and illustrations.
This is an overarching account of Caribbean development within the framework of increasing globalization of the world economy. It charts the shifting politics of development within the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean during the last 40 years era of independence for most of these countries.
Emancipation to Emigration is the second of three books aimed at covering the 2000 Caribbean History syallabus of the Caribbean Examinations Council. It is a considerably revised and enlarged version of a work written to meet the needs of earlier editions of the syllabus.
This collection of stories is peopled mainly by rejects of society, sad and lonely souls trying to come to terms with, to survive in, antagonistic circumstances.
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