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... The Sunlit Caribbean. By Alec Waugh. acs os. oa.) A model travel book. It is pleasant to see what a practised and brilliant writer can do with material which might have become a mere geography lesson. -There are two true stories inset which would have ...
... nca is indeed unknown had it een better known, Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer surely would never have attempted to cross it from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean ,vith only £20 as his whole fortune. As a result of this trip many ani tals, etc., hitherto unknown ...
... for Unuto it is not his fault that the Corabanian plan falters, or that his wife, who is more of Curzon Street than the Caribbean, should turn to a tough and deplorable American suitor. Lady Fortrose might well say of Corabana as Masefield of the port ...
... our politics. I can't imagine the piece making converts. Can Washington and London afford to let an island in the South Caribbean proved to be rich in deposits vital to atomic development continue to be the scene of a significant social experiment? On ...
... attack upon Britain's West Indian stewardship, but a moderately entertaining account of the wanderings of Mr. Brown in the Caribbean, of his ship board companions and experiences. He touches only upon the fringe of Jamaican life, and at the finish the reader ...
... deserves a stiff cover. Katherine Dunham, the coloured ballet star, was in London in the autumn of 1948, when she appeared in Caribbean Rhapsody, and, believe it or not, gave a lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. In KATHERINE DUNHAM HER DANCERS ...
... new book, Sun and Heir (Peter Davies. 8s. 6d.), is a satire or a farce, or both, and its action takes place on a nameless Caribbean island with such charming characters as Polly de la Pourriture and Millicent Casa de Puta. If the fun gets a little rough ...
... they play at miscegenation. And I will say nothing about Mr. La Yarre being- abducted by an island of lonely ladies in the Caribbean, for it might be thought I was cribbing from Dumas. Mr. La Yarre ls as good a story-teller as that. He is one of the grand ...
... journey was undertaken in war conditions, plenty of courage that is implicit and never underscored in her recital. The Sunlit Caribbean (Evans. 8s. 6d.) is a collection of nostalgic travel reminiscences, rather than a guide-book. It is readable, discursive ...
... Scotia, where he lives, there are many traces of the sailors and privateers who, 150 years ago, sailed far south to the Caribbean Seas to make their fortunes, or to die, and it is of those men that he writes, with a good deal of lusty relish, in Pride's ...
... become a parson, married, caused a girl's suicide, left holy orders and is determined to find out the meanine of it all on a Caribbean island. The book, which devotes approximately 172 pages, with never a smile, to each young man, was printed in Holland. I ...
... is the oddest, and it is also a little theatrical and a little contrived. It is the story of a shipwreck in the wartime Caribbean, with all the correct properties of a lusty he-man, a beautiful woman and her pitiable husband. None of the other stories ...