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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SYMONDS D.M. Caribbean Adventure. Frederick Warne & Co 1959 224pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. Boys novel about pirates in the Caribbean. £3 TAFT E. A puritan in Voodoo-Land. The Penn Pub. Co., Philadelphia 1938 407pp + plates and col. frontispiece. 1st ed., front hinge loose and one corner bumped causing small crease in margin to pages. Description of the journey of lady who visited the island and describes the country. Good photo plates. £20 TEMPERLEY H. British Antislavery 1833-1870. Longman 1972 298pp. 1st ed., ex libre, still fine in D/W. History of the abolitionist movement from 1833. £12 THOMAS H. The slave trade. The history of the Atlantic slave trade 1440-1870. Picador 1997 925pp + plates. Clean in D/W, contents solid but shaken in original cloth. An important new history on the subject. £9 THOMAS J.J. Froudacity. West Indian fables by James Anthony Froude explained. New Beacon Books 1969 195pp. Paperback. Fine. £6 THOME J.A. and KIMBALL J.H. Emancipation in the West Indies A six months tour in Antigua, Barbadoes and Jamaica in the year 1837. American Anti-Slavery Society, New York 1839 412pp + folding map, 2nd ed., fine in original cloth. Detailed report on the workings of the apprentice system in each of these islands with many details of individual estates and descriptions of court sessions, etc. £85 THORNTON A.P. West India Policy under the restoration. Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1956 vi + [2] + frontispiece + 280pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Study of the relationship between the Crown and the colonies using original sources. Scarce. £45 THORPE R. A letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. Vice President of the African Institution, containing remarks on the reports of the Sierra Leone Company and African Institution: with hints respecting the means by which an universal abolition of the slave trade might be carried into effect. London 1815 84pp. 2nd edition. Mostly very clean in modern boards with cloth spine. Very scarce. £125 TIMPSON G.F. Jamaican Interlude. 1821-1941 Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Ltd 1938 xiii + 87pp + tipped in Addendum + plates. 1st ed., fine in blue card covers. Written by a former Governor the work concentrates on the period around emancipation and apprenticeship. £40 TIMPSON G.F. Jamaican Interlude. 1821-1941 Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Ltd 1938 xiii + 87pp + tipped in Addendum + plates. 1st ed., fine in original D/W. Inscribed by the author on front end paper. Written by a former Governor the work concentrates on the period around emancipation and apprenticeship. £65 TOMLINSON H.M. The sea and the jungle. Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brezils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira rivers to the San Antonio falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders, and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida where she loaded for home. Done in the years 1909 and 1910. Duckworth 1930 343pp. 2nd ed. with 16 woodcut illustrations by Clare Leighton. Fine in original worn and stained cloth. £12 TRAA A. Van Suriname 1900-1940. Deventer 1946 218pp + plates. 1st ed., some tone spotting, in worn D/W. Contains good photo plates. In Dutch. £15 TROLLOPE A. The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Chapman & Hall 1860 371pp. 6th ed., contents shaken and very loose in very worn original cloth, spine faded. Written by the author while on Post Office business in the West Indies to re-organise the Colonial Post Offices and to undertake postal treaties with the Spanish colonies. Much on Jamaica also chapters on Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Trinidad and St Thomas. £20 RHODES M.K. Birds and Flowers of Jamaica. Novelty Trading Co. Ltd. 1971 73pp. 1st ed., clean in pictorial boards. Contains 36 full colour illustrations from original watercolours by the author. £4 REID Cap. M. The Maroon: or, planter life in Jamaica. New York 1874 383pp + engraved plates. Fine in blue original cloth. A fictional work set at the end of the C18th giving a good picture of West Indian life. £55 REED W. The History of Sugar and sugar yielding plants, together with an epitome of every notable process of sugar extraction, and manufacture, from the earliest times to the present. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1866 viii + 206pp and 2 folding tables. 1st ed., very fine in fine original green blindstamped cloth with gilt title lettering on spine and front cover. Well researched history with much on the islands in the Caribbean especially Jamaica. £140 RECKFORD B. Does Fidel eat more than your father? Cuban Opinion. Andre Deutsch 1971 191pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. A Jamaican playwright investigates Cuba. £7 RAYNAL A. A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. By the Abbe Raynal. To which is added the revolution of America, by the same author. A new translation. With notes, large additions and improvements, and a copious index. Edinburgh 1782 6 vols with engraved frontispiece in vol. 1. Light browning mostly to prelims otherwise very fine in contemporary decorated full calf with raised bands and red labels. Usual wear to hinges and tops of spine. Decorative contemporary bookplates with inscription 'A Wight Man never wanted a weapon.' £400 RANSTON J. From we were boys. The story of the magnificient cousins Manley and Bustamante. Bustamante Institute of Public and International Affairs 1989 vi + 201pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. £25 RAMEL General Narrative of the deportation to Cayenne, of Barthelemy, Pichegru, Willot, Marbois, La Rue, Ramel, etc. in consequence of the 18th Fructidor, (September 4, 1797) containing a variety of important facts relative to that revolution, and to the voyage, residence and escape of Barthelemy, Pichegru, etc. From the French of General Ramel, commandant of the legislative body guard. Dublin 1800 122pp. 1st ed., some light toning, fine in modern cloth £65 Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Next page

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