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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TALBOYS W.P. West India pickles. Diary of a cruise through the West Indies in the yacht Josephine. New York 1876 209pp. 2nd ed. Slightly browned otherwise clean in original pictorial cloth, one page rather loose. The author visited St Thomas, Saba, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, St Domingo and Cuba and recounts his experiences. Illustrated with attractive engraving in text. £65 WATERTON C. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824. Edited with biographical introduction and explanatory index by the Rev. J.G. Wood. Macmillan & Co 1880 xvi + 520pp. Fine in full calf decorated prize binding. Much on the Guianas with fine line drawings in text. £85 ZIMMERMAN E.A.W. von Taschenbuch der Reisen oder unterhaltende Darstellung der Entdeckungen des 18ten Jahrhunderts, in rucksicht der Lander Menschen und Productenkunde. Fur jede klasse von Lesern. Leipzig 1803 [6] + 304pp + lithographed frontispiece, folding map and folding plates. Fine in original decorated boards. 3.5 x 5in History and description of the West Indies in German with illustrations copied from other works of the period including Stedman and Edwards. A curious and very scarce work. £120 CROCKER J. The Centaur Guide to Bermuda, the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Centaur Press 1968 226pp + plates. 1st ed., ex library with a couple of h/s's but very clean and presentable. £3 CUNDALL F. Historic Jamaica. Institute of Jamaica 1915 xxiii + 424pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in rather worn contemporary half calf. Fine historical study with chapters on each parish cont. attractive line drawings. £75 DOMINICA Dominica. Nature island of the Caribbean. Hansib. Pub. 1989 320 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Fine study of the island, profusely illustrated with colour plates. Recommended. £7 DOOKHAN I. A Pre-Emancipation History of the West Indies. Collins 1972 160pp. 2nd Impression. Paperback. Clean. £9 DOOKHAN I. A Post-Emancipation History of the West Indies. Collins 1975 191pp. 1st ed. Paperback. Clean. £9 DUNBAR R.N. Beauties of Tropical Scenery; Lyrical sketches and love songs. With notes, historical and illustrative. Robert Hardwicke, London 1863 x + 129 [2] pp + engraved frontispiece. 1st ed. Minor tone spotting otherwise fine in original decorated green cloth. Presentation copy to the author's wife with inscription on half title. Poems set in the Caribbean including 'A prospect of the Antilles,' and 'Lyrical sketches to a beautiful Creole.' £90 DUNN R.S. Sugar and slaves. The rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624 - 1713. Uni. of N. Carolina Press 1973 359pp. Fine in D/W. Fine historical study. £20 EATON G.E. Alexander Bustamante and modern Jamaica. Kingston Pub., Kingston, Jamaica 1975 276pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W. £9 EDWARDS C.L. Bahama songs and stories. A contribution to folk-lore. G.E. Stechert & Co, New York 1942 111pp + 4 plates, reprint of 1895 ed. Clean in worn brown original cloth. £45 ELLIS Rev J.B. The Diocese of Jamaica. A short account of its history, growth, and organisation. S.P.C.K. 1913 x + [2] + 237pp + plates. 1st ed., some toning otherwise clean in original red cloth. £75 ERISMAN H.M. The Caribbean Challenge. U.S. Policy in a volatile region. Westview Press 1984 xiii + 208pp. Paperback. Clean. £4 ERISMAN H.M. Cuba's International Relations. The anatomy of a nationalistic foreign policy. Westview Press 1985 203pp. Paperback. Fine. £4 ESKELUND K. Revolt in the tropics. Travels in the Caribbean. Alvin Redman 1963 176pp + plates. 1st ed. Very fine in fine D/W. Travels through the islands during the Cuban crisis with much interesting social comment. £9 EVANS C. and MEGGERS B.J. Archeological investigations in British Guiana. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington 1960 xxi + 418 + 68 plates + folding maps and tables. 1st ed., ex libre but with only two h/s's and no labels or marks on spine. Very clean in original green cloth. £40 FAIRFORD F. Cuba. Peeps at many lands. A. & C. Black 1926 88pp + 11 col. plates. Some light foxing otherwise clean in original cloth. Contains attractive colour paintings of island scenes by Claude Pratt. One of the scarcer titles in the series. £18 FAWCETT W. and RENDLE A.B. Flora of Jamaica. Containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island. British Museum 1910 - 36 5 vols. (all published). 1st eds., fine in original green cloth. Many plates and drawings in each volume with 32 plates devoted to orchids. £200 FERMOR P.L. The traveller's tree. A journey through the Caribbean islands. John Murray 1955 403pp + plates. Reprint, clean in D/W. One of the best written travel books on the Caribbean with fine photo plates. £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