There is a surprisingly rich resource of books on the West Indies.  Only a few books on the Caribbean are commonly found in bookshops but there are an enormous range of titles in existence.  There is a fine online bibliography of West Indies books, mostly sorted by author, compiled by Don Mitchell at http://books.ai

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TUCKER T. Bermuda today and yesterday. 1503-1978 Robert Hale 1979 219pp + plates. 2nd ed., fine in D/W. History of the islands. £14 WOOD P. Caribbean Isles. Time Life Books, Amsterdam 1975 184 large pp. 1st ed., clean in pictorial boards. Study of the natural features of the Caribbean with fine colour photos. £4 WILLIAMS C.R. A Tour through the island of Jamaica, from the western to the eastern end, in the year 1823 London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke 1826 Half title + xviii + 352pp. 1st ed., very clean in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. A very fine copy. There are no plates with this edition and none are called for. From research I have discovered that some copies come with a frontispiece while copies from I believe only the second ed. come with 5 litho plates. The author found the slaves to be happy and content and attacks Wilberforce and the Methodist ministers. £225 WILLIAMS E. History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago. Andre Deutsch 1964 292pp. Paperback. Fine apart from occasional underlining. £3 WILLIAMS G. The Measure of a Man. Toronto 1970 97pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. Signed by author on inside cover and with signed letter included. Novel by Jamaican author. £12 WILLIAMS N. A history of the Cayman Islands. Govt. of Cayman Is. 1970 x + 94pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in red cloth. £10 WILLIAMS S. Voodoo and the art of Haiti. Morland Lee Ltd. 1969 xv + 109pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Well illustrated guide with colour reproductions of Haitian art. £12 WILLYAMS C. An account of the campaign in the West Indies, in the year 1794, under the command of their excellencies Lieut. General Sir Charles Grey, K.B. and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. commanders in chief in the West Indies; with the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St Lucia, Guadeloupe, Marigalante, Desiada, &c. and the events that followed those unparrelled successes, and caused the loss of Guadeloupe. London, printed by T. Bensley for G. Nicol 1796 149 + [5] + 62 large pp + plan of Fort Bourbon in Martinique and map of the island with two aquatint engravings in text. 4to. 1st ed., a few tone spots otherwise fine in half calf retaining original marbled boards. 9 x 11in The author was a chaplain with the British navy at the time of the occurrence of the events described. Rare. Note this edition does not include the full page acquatint plates. It is printed in a smaller size font and has much smaller margins than the other edition. £495 WINSTON A. No Purchase, No Pay. Sir Henry Morgan, Captain William Kidd, Captain Woodes Rogers in the Great Age of privateers and pirates 1665 - 1715. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1970 265pp + plates. 1st U.K. ed., clean in D/W. Biographies of the pirates. £16 WISEMAN H.V. A short history of the British West Indies. Uni of London Press 1950 159pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in D/W. Illustrated history of the Caribbean. Uncommon. £9 WOLLASTON N. Red Rumba A journey through the Caribbean and Central America. Hodder & Stoughton 1962 231pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Good travel book in which the author describes his four and half month visit to the Caribbean. Includes account of Cuba, Dominican Republic shortly after the assassination of President Trujillo and Haiti. £5 WOLSTENHOLME G. The West Indian tour of England 1906. Privately printed 1992 40pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Illustrated history of the first West Indian cricket tour of England. Recommended. £5 WOOD D. Trinidad in transition. The years after slavery. Oxford Uni. Press 1968 318pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Scholarly work discussing the effects of the abolition of the slave trade and consequent introduction of indentured labourers from India and China. £32 WRIGHT I.A. The Spanish version of Sir Anthony Shirley's raid of Jamaica, 1597. Hispanic American Historical Review 1922 22pp. Contemporary reprint from journal in original boards retaining card covers. Small library h/s's. Extracts from 4 previously unpublished documents existing in the Archivo General De Indias, Seville. Very scarce. £35 WRIGHT P. Lady Nugent's Journal of her residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805. Institute of Jamaica 1966 xxxiv + 331pp + plates, revised ed., fine in torn D/W. Lady Nugent's husband was governor of Jamaica. Gives a vivid impression of planter society. £30 WRIGHT R. Revels in Jamaica 1682-1838. Plays and Players of a Century, tumblers and conjurors, musical refugees and solitary showmen, dinners, balls and cockfights, darky mummers and other memories of high times and merry hearts. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1937 378pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in creased D/W. Fine well illustrated history of theatre in Jamaica. £60 WRONG H. Government of the West Indies. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1923 190pp. 1st ed., review copy with pasted label on inside cover, clean in original cloth, spine faded. Seldom seen. £55 YOUNG A.H. and PHILLIPS D.E. Militarization in the Non-Hispanic Caribbean. Lynne Rienner Pub., Boulder 1986 ix + 178pp. 1st ed., fine in fine original green cloth. £9 YOUNG W. West India Common Place book: compiled from Parliamentary and Official documents; shewing the interest of Great Britain in its sugar colonies. London: Printed for Richard Phillips 1807 xxi + 256pp incl. tables + 2 folding maps and 2 folding tables. 1st ed., clean in half calf. Foolscap quarto (10 x 12in). Overall very fine. Both maps re-inforced along folds and with small library h/s's. No other library handstamps anywhere. Contains statistics on slaves imported into the Colonies, the distress of the planters and the problem of Caribbean defense. Sabin 106128. £600 ZACKS R. The Pirate Hunter. The true story of Captain Kidd. Review 2003 422pp. Paperback. 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Links to other West Indies sites

CaribSeek - The Caribbean Search Directory  

Caribbean Vacation Guide

http://caribbean-guide.info/

Make the Caribbean Guide your first stop for learning about the advantages of traveling to these gorgeous islands.

Family history of Jamaica

http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/jamaica.htm

Sources of genealogy and historical information

Turks and Caicos Islands Museum

http://www.tcmuseum.org