Caribbean
by MICHENER, JAMES A.BERRY, STEVEEdition: Reprint
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2005-12-13
Publisher(s): Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Summary
"A grand epic." THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER Master storyteller James A. Michener sweeps us off to the Caribbean,with a magnificent novel that captures the eternal allure of that glittering string of islands and their tumultuous history. Beginning in 1310 and continuing through Columbus's arrival and the bloody slave revolt of Haiti to the rise of Castro, CARIBBEAN carries us through 700 dramatic years in a tale teeming with revolution and romance, slavery and superstition, heartfelt characters and thunderous destinies. A Dual Main Slection of the Book-of-the-Month Club From the Paperback edition.
Author Biography
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
Table of Contents
| Fact and Fiction | ix | ||
| I. A HEDGE OF CROTON | 3 | (19) | |
| II. DEATH OF GREATNESS | 22 | (28) | |
| III. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN HISPANIOLA | 50 | (35) | |
| IV. THE SPANISH LAKE | 85 | (55) | |
| V. BIG STORMS IN LITTLE ENGLAND | 140 | (33) | |
| VI. THE BUCCANEER | 173 | (75) | |
| VII. THE SUGAR INTEREST | 248 | (41) | |
| VIII. A WEDDING ON NEVIS | 289 | (30) | |
| IX. THE CREOLES | 319 | (39) | |
| X. THE TORTURED LAND | 358 | (45) | |
| XI. MARTIAL LAW | 403 | (40) | |
| XII. LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION | 443 | (49) | |
| XIII. THE SCHOLAR | 492 | (39) | |
| XIV. THE RASTA MAN | 531 | (46) | |
| XV. TWINS | 577 | (38) | |
| XVI. THE GOLDEN SEA | 615 | (54) | |
| Further Reading | 669 | (4) | |
| The Setting | 673 |
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