The West Indies and the Spanish Main (Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 12/4/2014
EAN 9781108078047, ISBN10: 1108078044
Paperback, 406 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Although the author Anthony Trollope (1815–82) enjoyed great success as a novelist, he was also an eager and perceptive travel writer. In this account of his voyage to the West Indies and Central America, published in 1859, he recounts the many places he visited, including Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama and Costa Rica. Trollope brings his eye for detail to these islands at an important time: slavery had been abolished in the British colonies, but persisted in Cuba, and he depicts this complex region and its people with all the vividness of his novels. Though sometimes reflecting the beliefs and prejudices of the Victorian period, the work remains essential and engaging reading for those interested in the nineteenth-century Caribbean. Trollope's writings on North America and on Australia and New Zealand are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
1. Introductory
2. Jamaica - town
3. Jamaica - country
4. Jamaica - black men
5. Jamaica - coloured men
6. Jamaica - white men
7. Jamaica - sugar
8. Jamaica - Emperor Soulouque
9. Jamaica - government
10. Cuba
11. The passage of the Windward Islands
12. British Guiana
13. Barbados
14. Trinidad
15. St Thomas
16. New Granada, and the Isthmus of Panama
17. Central America - Panama to San José
18. Central America - Costa Rica - San José
19. Central America - Costa Rica - Mount Irazu
20. Central America - San José to Greytown
21. Central America - railways, canals, and transit
22. The Bermudas
23. Conclusion.