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... Ravine, in the Botanic Garden. They both exemplified the Victorian romanticism which had come to seem the main appeal of the Caribbean. Of the nine English visitors whose experiences in the West Indies Mr. Pope-Hennessy retells, two lived in the sixteenth ...
... articles from the pen of this much-travelled author, written between 1928 and 1953, the date on which he first visited the Caribbean and the date when just possibly he set his other work aside in order to write that successful novel, Island in the Sun. The ...
... life-long sailor and the author of many books with nautical subjects. In the present one he has based his research on the Caribbean, which he knows so well. Lively though rather uneven stuff and with many pockets of curious information. First among this ...
... staunch, solid foil, another lieutenant, and the captain a madman from whom the command will rightly pass in the heat of Caribbean battles. As ever, this writer tells an exciting story with admirable tension and spirit, and succeeds in convincing the most ...
... Murray's The Neat Little Corpse (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.), a watertight story, if you will forgive me, about a yachtsman jn the Caribbean Seas who, from his anchored boat, first observes a floating and murdered body, and remarks pleasantly, as in the title, on ...
... British Guiana and the four characters who carry t plot are two married couples, young and, with o exception, coming to a Caribbean country for the fi time. The complications are partly racial but, for a mu greater part, emotional, and the whole story is ...
... Bannister, the cricket correspondent of a great London daily, of the four fantastic months on and off the playing fields of the Caribbean during the M.C.C.'s 1954 tour of the West Indies. England's enrvi'lin T on II iiJfnn lirritoe in MIC t/Cipicuii, i-iV/ii ...
... midshipman Mr. Nel at fifteen, and culminating in marriage to Fanny Nisbet. In between were admiral's wife Lady Parker (Caribbean), provost-marshal's daughter Virginie Simpson (Quebec), Indian chief's daughter Chetuma, Rose Andrews, Mrs. Moutray and all ...
... describes his year in Jamaica, and leaves no adjective unturned in a praiseworthy effort to give the reader his money's worth. CARIBBEAN NIGHTS (Robert Hale. 12s. 6d.) is colourful from the wrapper to the last word. It certainly tells in effective detail just ...
... fleets. Mr. Forester, who is never more at home than upon the deck of a sailing vessel, ploughing the Atlantic, running the Caribbean, or upon an}' of the waters of the Seven Seas, has a fine old time with his hero among the convoys and merchant shipping ...
... Trinidad, by Mr. Alfred H. Mendes, who is a new author with a natural and a vivid sense of expression. He writes of this Caribbean island he knows so well, and of the extraordinary hotch-potch of races who inhabit it English, American, Chinese, Indian ...
... Grandt, a newspaper man, is more concerned with copy than with sunken treasure; and his expedition in search of it off a Caribbean island is more of a stunt than a hunt. He collects a movie operator (film rights), a novelist (serial rights), and a Don ...