Author: LEIGH FERMOR, PATRICK
Title: The Traveller's Tree. A Lourney through the Caribbean Islands. Reprinted.
Description: London, John Murray, 1952. Stout 8°. Original publ. cloth, gilded title on spine with a gilded image of the Traveller's Tree. (xi), 403pp. Captioned monochrome frontispiece illustrating the Traveller's Tree, nowadays inhabiting the Antilles. was originally a stranger to the regions. Another monochrome plate, many captioned moonochrome images on 49 photo-plates illustrating Colonial Architecture, locals in traditional clothing, environmental sightseeing pictures, index, double-page facsim. map of the region described on endpapers, table of contents. English language travelogue describing various aspects of the Caribbean World. Good copy.(lower outer joint split in places, skilfully restored however).

Keywords: caribbean travel history architacture monuments locals culture heritage history trips holidays leisure tourism travel antilles westindies sceneries