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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SALKEY A. Jamaica. Hutchinson of London 1973 107pp. Paperback. Fine. Poem about Jamaica. £4 SALKEY A. Come home, Malcolm Heartland. Hutchinsons of London 1976 206pp. 1st ed., fine in almost fine D/W. Novel about a Jamaican lawyer living in England. £45 SALKEY A. In the Border Country and other stories. Bogle-L'Ouverture Press 1998 270pp. Large paperback. Fine. Posthumous collection of stories. £5 SALMON C.S. The Caribbean Confederation. A plan for the Union of the fifteen British West Indian Colonies Frank Cass 1971 175pp + folding map. Facsimile reprint of 1888 ed., fine in fine D/W. £40 SAMUEL Rev. P. The Wesleyan - Methodist Missions, in Jamaica and Honduras, delineated: containing a description of the principal stations. Together with a consecutive account of the rise and progress of the work of God at each. London 1850 320pp + 33 litho plates. 1st ed., fine in original cloth, rebacked. 8vo. The author was a missionary in Jamaica for 12 years. Very fine tinted litho plates, mostly of Mission houses in Jamaica. £750 SANDERSON I.T. Caribbean treasure. Viking Press, New York 1939 292pp. 1st U.S. ed., fine in orig. pictorial cloth, spine faded. Study of wildlife in Trinidad, Haiti and Suriname with attractive drawings by the author. £9 SANDERSON I.T. Caribbean treasure. Viking Press, New York 1945 292pp. 4th ptg., fine in D/W. Study of fauna in Trinidad, Haiti and Suriname. £9 SARDUY P.P. and STUBBS J. Afrocuba. An anthology of Cuban writing on race, politics and culture. Latin American Bureau 1993 309pp. Paperback. Clean. £3 SAUER C.O. The early Spanish Main. Uni. of California Press 1966 xii + 306 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Study of the effects on the New World following its discovery by Columbus. £16 SCHUCHERT C. Historical geology of the Antillean-Caribbean region or the lands bordering the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1935 811pp + plates and folding maps. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Authorative handbook. £20 SCOTT L. Witchbroom. Heinemann 1992 272pp. Paperback. Clean. Novel by Trinidad born author. £2 SCOTT Sir S.D. To Jamaica and Back. Chapman & Hall, London 1876 viii + 324pp + frontispiece. 1st ed., clean in original worn cloth, spine badly worn at top and contents shaken but with no loose pages. Description of the island written by a British military historian. Very scarce. £175 SEARLE C. The Forsaken Lover. White Words and Black People. Penguin 1973 128pp. Paperback. Clean. The writer spent a year teaching in Tobago. £2 SEARLE C. In Nobody's Backyard. Maurice Bishop's Speeches: 1979-1983. A memorial volume. Zed Books 1984 260pp. 1st ed., very fine in original red cloth. £9 SENIOR O. The Message is Change. A perspective of the 1972 General Elections. Kingston Pub. Ltd. 1972 98pp. Paperback. Fine. Politics in Jamaica. £9 SENIOR O. Summer Lightning and other stories. Longman 1986 134pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Inscribed by author on title page. Fine. Short stories by Jamaican author. £8 SEVERIN Tim The Golden Antilles. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1970 xii + 336pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. History of the early British explorers in the Caribbean with much on Ralegh and Thomas Gage. £10 ST JOHNSTON T.R. West Indian Pepper-Pot. Or thirteen 'Quashie' stories.. Phillip Allan & Co, London 1928 209pp + 13 col. plates. 1st ed. Odd tone spot on page edges only. Clean in original orange cloth. Stories set in the West Indies with fine colour illustrations by Eva Wilkin. £65 WATERMAN THE HATTER Trinidad. 24 Color Photographs of Port of Spain - Tobago & Island Scenery. Port of Spain 1910 (circa) 24pp of colour photos + 1pp text + map. 1st ed., poor condition with first 3pp detached, some others with missing corners, in tattered original green card covers. 9.5 x 7" £30 SMITH BROS. and Co Souvenir from the Land of the Humming Bird. Port of Spain 1900 (circa) 8pp folding sheet with views of Maracas Waterfalls and 'a tropic scene' + adverts for the business. Slight tone spotting. £20 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