The Caribbean Cruise (Hardcover)

Text extracted from opening pages of book: THE CARIBBEAN CRUISE By HARRY L. FOSTER WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS DODD, MEAD & COMPANY NEW YORK 1928 THE WALLS OF CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA OOPTBIGHT, 1928 BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. ACKNOWLEDGMENT For assistance in the preparation of this volume, the author wishes to thank: Miss Viola Irene Cooper, who supplied the data on Jamaica. Mr. David Heald, of the Raymond and Whit comb Company, who supplied several of the maps and photographs. Mr. Fausto Simon, managing-director of the Plaza Hotel, Havana, - who corrected portions of the chapter on Cuba. The many steamship companies who, in ad dition to advertising in the volume, have aided in bringing our data up to date. The author has reprinted occasional pages from his own recently published If You Go to South America, and has drawn portions of his material from A Guide to the West Indies by the late Frederick A. Ober, with the permission of the publishers, Dodd, Mead and Company. ILLUSTRATIONS The walls of Cartagena, Colombia .... Frontispiece TACINQ PAGE Palms and coral seas 2 The Port of Cartagena 8 The President's palace in Haiti 18 Hamilton Harbor, Bermuda 30 A Bahaman sponge factory 46 Morro Castle, Havana 56 The side-streets of Kingston 80 A land of darkeys and donkeys 102 The Bastion de Febrero 124 Atop the Morro, San Juan 142 On the way to market 164 A glimpse into the primitive 178 The ruins of St. Pierre 196 Cabbage Palms, St. Vincent 216 The Careenage, Bridgetown 232 Coolies from the Far East 246 The landing, Curacao 262 The roofs of Caracas 272 The locks at Gatun 296 San Jose de Costa Rica 322 ACentral American volcano 338 ix LIST OF MAPS 3PAGE The West Indies ( folding) 6 Bermuda ( folding), 36 Havana 63 Kingston, Jamaica 85 Jamaica ( folding) 92 Port-au-Prince, Haiti 109 Santo Domingo City 131 San Juan, Porto Rico 147 Porto Rico ( folding) 158 Bridgetown, Barbados 237 Port of Spain, Trinidad 251 Caracas, Venezuela 281 Panama Canal Zone 307 Panama City 313 THE CARIBBEAN CRUISE CHAPTER I WHY THE WKST INDIKS? PALMS AND CORAL SKAS American Mediterranean Pirate 1 Lands - Tlu k X'aryini; At tractions-The C liniatc.

General

Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	July 2009
Authors:	Harry L. Foster
Editors:	William W Harris
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	406
ISBN-13:	978-1-104-85576-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-104-85576-3
Barcode:	9781104855765

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