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... judges of atrocity would call a trivial incident. In 1731 a master mariner, Robert Jenkins, came back to England from the West Indies with a story of the Spaniards cutting off his ear and rifling his ship. He was even willing to show the ear to anyone who ...
... ever cease blowing? We pray not. C. S. Forester, in 'Lieutenant Hornblower (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.), heads him for the West Indies in a ship with a mad captain. He more or less blows the man down a hatchway, achieves command himself, brings off a coup ...
... beauties of climate and scenery, this is a book with its own attractions. Briefly, it is concerned with an island in the West Indies of our own days where the conflict is not solely between the white and the coloured settlers or inhabi tants, but just as ...
... theatrical drama. How a young naval officer in the days of sailing-ships spent his life a.shore and afloat, fighting in the West Indies, falling in love with this young woman or that, sometimes more platonically, and sometimes less, how he quarrelled with ...
... mass of filaments or antennae which clutched the unhappy victim and dragged him away. This was mostly happening in the West Indies, but the peril came as near as the west coasts of Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall before the trouble came to an end (so that ...
... Hubertus (Seeker and Warburg. 15s.) continues Mr. Edgar Mittelholzer's series of novels on the early colonial life in the West Indies. The story opens in 1763, and its chief prota gonist is a planter of Dutch and Indian blood, the father of a brood of children ...
... 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 1 uinuu, n uiuo in uio foreword, that, to people ...
... mutually ex clusive. Mr. E. W. Stanton is cricket correspondent of a big London daily, and as such covered the matches in the West Indies, that were to provide so much controversy. West Indian Adventure (Museum Press. 9s. 6d.), however, dwells less with the ...
... his world journey. Frank is very much a man in the Slocum tradition, and this story of his voyage from Cape Town to the West Indies in his yacht Wylo in the year 1947 is a grand adventure from start to finish. Mammals yield the secrets of their lives only ...
... , this volume is a chronicle shaped and coloured for our delight, of swallow flights from one island to another in the West Indies Cuba, Cura9ao, Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad leaving us with an eyeful of word- pictures in such brilliant ...
... Pakistan player, Hanif Mohammed, the young Cuan McCarthy from South Africa, Donnelly of New Zealand and Worrell of the West Indies. No one writing about the great game has a lighter touch or, it always seems to me, a more phenomenal memory than Mr. Robinson ...
... BRIEF Body Below By Howard Mason. (Michael Joseph 10s. 6d.) A superior thriller concerned with marine insurance in the West Indies. Recommended. The Self-Betrayed By Joseph Wechs- berg. (Gollancz 12s. 6d.) A behind the Iron Curtain novel by a New Yorker ...