Author: HEARN, Lafcadio. Title: Two years in the French West Indies.
Description: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, (1890). Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 44 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. 431 pp. First edition; with bookplate of Schiffs-Bibliothek Hamburg-Amerika Linie. - Containing the essay 'Midsummer trip to the tropics' and 14 essays on Martinique. 'During a trip to the Lesser Antilles in the summer of 1887, the writer of the following pages, landing at Martinique, fell under the influence of that singular spell which the island has always exercised upon strangers, and by which it has earned its poetic name - Le pays des Revenants (Preface). The author stayed for two years on the island. An appendix includes some Creole melodies.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands Martinique
Price: EUR 165.00 = appr. US$ 179.33 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 28512