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: |
September 2007 |
| First published: |
September 2007 |
| Authors: |
Harry L. Foster
|
| Editors: |
William W Harris
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
404 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-548-45435-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-548-45435-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780548454350 |
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