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Best Designed Wellness Hotels: North And South America, Carribean, Mexico / Nord - Und sudamerika, Karibik, ...
Martin Nicholas Kunz

Avedition, 2007

This updated volume of the successful "best designed wellness hotels" series seduces the reader into a world of looking at beautiful details, and the harmony between colours and shapes, whether it be in the centre of pulsating large cities, on the Caribbean Islands, in the winelands of California, the Moyave Coast, in the forests of North America, in the jungle, the Mexican outbacks or at the end of the world in Patagonia. The author has ...

Crystal Rain

27 reviews
Tobias S. Buckell

Tor Books, 2006

Original and fun
Crystal Rain is a strong debut. Tobias Buckell has taken the lost civilization genre of science fiction and created a wonderful story. The characters are mysterious and compelling, and John deBrun cuts a dashing and heroic figure whose own personal worries give the reader and emotional connection. But the characters are not deeply emotional. There is some philosophical discussion, but it is ...

Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the ...

3 reviews
Richard S. Dunn

The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

Thorough and Readable Study of Plantation Development
Richard S. Dunn examines the British colonialization of the West Indies. Dunn considers numerous colonies, but Barbados takes early preeminence. Dunn discusses the adventurers of the first twenty years, mostly small-scale farmers; the cavalier-planters of the 1640s and '50s, Royalist exiles who fled the English Civil War; and the slaves who became a majority of the population in the period ...

Searching for Sugar Mills: An Architectural Guide to the Eastern Carribean

1 review
Suzanne Gordon, Anne Hersh

Interlink Publishing Group, 2005

An exceptionally useful and beautiful work of art!
This is an absolutely fascinating book on the Caribbean - the content, the writing and the photography are all superb. In addition to its stated purpose of being an architectural guide, it surpasses most travel books in the useful information it imparts to anyone visiting this delightful area or wishing to learn more about its rich culture and heritage. Aside from the stunningly beautiful color ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Chase Is On, The (Pirates of the Carribean:Dead Man's Chest)

2 reviews
Tennant Redbank

Disney Press, 2006

Johnny Depp Rocks
My daughter was thrilled with this book and others I have bought from Amazon. Great books for a great price. As described, no surprises. Will buy again. Keep them coming.

Commonwealth Carribean Land Law (Commonwealth Caribbean Law)
Owusu

Routledge Cavendish, 2006

The Sea Captain and the Lady

2 reviews
Vada Foster

Intaglio Publications, 2008

Wonderful period romance on the high seas!
This is a wonderful period story about two women who find love in one another and the lengths they will go to in order to be together. The setting is the Caribbean in the days of Pirates and women who often had to hide their sexual identity to be able to work for a fare wage. You will be able to smell the salty air, feel the sun on your face and fall in love with the women in this story. I ...

Clean, Sweet Wind: Sailing with the Last Boatmakers of the Carribean

4 reviews
Douglas C. Pyle

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1998

Well-written account of a fascinating subject
I love this book, and I haven't even finished it yet. I'll admit I'm biased, as I know the Grenadines well and have long been fascinated with the traditional watercraft. But anyone can appreciate the way Pyle develops his story, with a low-key humour that bubbles through the text. Good pics too. The chapter on whaling is fascinating. Straight out of Moby Dick! A thoroughly good read.

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (Envisioning Cuba)
Alejandro de la Fuente

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, including parish registries and notary, town council, and treasury records, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of ...

The Iron Pirate, A Tale of Strange Happenings On The Sea, 2008

Gringos In Paradise: Our Honduras Odyssey

18 reviews

BookSurge, 2007

Powerful book for anyone.
Gringos in Paradise:Our Honduras Odyssey is a powerful book for anyone contemplating a move to another country or any other transition in life. Dr. Ashlie clearly, yet humorously, share the challenges she and her husband met in choosing to leave the country of their birth and immerse themselves into a foreign culture. The honesty in which she shares the process of her personal and spiritual ...

Molten Memoirs: The Inside Story of the Montserrat Volcano
Gary, M. Smith

East Village PhotoArts, 1999

Essays, Rumors, Field Notes, and Photographs from the Edge of Fury. An Artist's Account of the Volcano Holdouts of Salem, Montserrat. A one-of-a-kind book (with 72 stunning B&W and color volcanic eruption photos) Answers the question why 200 people would refuse to flee from iminant death by fire at the bottom of an exploding volcano. Raises the bar on adventure reporting as author and the unusual people he studied endure the ultimate fury ...

Complete Book of Carribean Cooking

3 reviews
Elisabeth Ortiz

Ballantine Books, 1986

A wonderful mix of caribbean cooking from all the islands.
When I bought this book I was searching for receipes from Puerto Rico. Being Puerto Rican and having been raised in the United States, I learned to love all the native dishes that my mother would fix for us. As a new military bride I soon discovered that even though I knew how to cook some of the staples i.e. arroz con gandules, carne guisada, etc., there was a lot I didn't know. My mother ...

Pirates of the Carribean at World's End
Disney Storybook Artists

Disney, 2007

Carribean Americans in New York City, 1895-1975 (Images of America) (Images of America)

1 review
F. Donnie Ford

Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2002

Caribbean Business Journal
This book is one of the few books on the migration patterns of West Indians (some say Caribbeans) coming to New York City that truly capture the essence of a people in pictures who have become a central part of the American Diaspora. Some of them-first and second generaton Caribbean Americans- have risen to the highest levels in their fields including Secretary of StateColin Powell, actor Sydney ...

Beautiful Turks and Caicos Islands: Providenciales: A Photographic Journey to the Queen Of the Carribean

1 review
Ryofu Pussel

Xlibris Corporation, 2005

Description
This book takes us on a journey in photographs and words to the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies. The 73 truly magnificent full-colour, full-spread, photographs show us all aspects of this exotic Caribbean island: Its Grace Bay Beach (which is rightfully regarded as one of the most beautiful beaches in the world), other places of interest, its ...

Commonwealth Caribbean Public Law
Fiadjoe, Albert Fiadjoe

Routledge Cavendish, 1999

This book depicts the various ways in which Caribbean courts seek to protect the citizen against the abuse of state power through the powerful tool of judicial review. Illustrations are drawn from both constitutional law and administrative law. Between these two subject areas, there is illustration of how the courts utilise their power of judicial review not only to control state legislative authority but also the exercise of discretion by ...

Underwater Paradise: Red Sea, the Maldives, Malaysia and the Carribean (Secret of the Sea)

1 review
Angelo Mojetta, Andrea Ferrari, ...

White Star, 2008

The ramblings of an amateur with a camera.
There is often considerable confusion whenever White Star publishing of Italy produce yet another book about the sea which is aimed primarily at scuba divers. Firstly, each book gets treated to a particular brand of Italian English which is hard to understand and makes reading the item very difficult indeed. Secondly, they appear to use a small number of truly excellent underwater photographers ...

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