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Book A Thinking Man s Guide to Voyaging South  The Many Facets of Caribbean Cruising

Download or read book A Thinking Man s Guide to Voyaging South The Many Facets of Caribbean Cruising written by Frank Virgintino and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Virgintino, author of numerous Free Cruising Guides for the Caribbean, has been working on "A Thinking Man's Guide to Voyaging South" for almost a year. Roughly 200 pages long, the Guide addresses everything North American sailors need to know to get to the Caribbean safely through a discussion of various routes from North America to the Caribbean as well as a discussion of the entire Caribbean - which the author breaks down into four quadrants. The author hopes that the Guide will allow for a clearer understanding of the entire Caribbean as well as the various routes that can be employed. Not only does it cover routes to the Caribbean from N. America and cruising routes around the Caribbean, it also looks at all aspects of preparation, weather and Gulf Stream information, safety and security and local knowledge and advice imparted by someone who has cruised the Caribbean extensively for many years.

Book South to the Caribbean

Download or read book South to the Caribbean written by Bill Robinson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1982 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands

Download or read book Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Travel back to the 18th century as you wander along cobbled lanes and past meticulously restored buildings at English Harbour, Antigua; hoist a jib and set sail from sailing fantasyland, Tortola, and enjoy the journey to one of the 50 or so isles making up the British Virgin Islands; or hit the atmospheric streets of Cuba's Habana Vieja and join in the living musical soundtrack of rumba, salsa, son and reggaeton; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Caribbean Islands and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Caribbean Islands Travel Guide: Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - weddings, honeymoons, sustainable travel, cuisine, music, wildlife, culture, history Covers Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Lucia, Trinidad, Turks & Caicos, US Virgin Islands, and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands, our most comprehensive guide to the Caribbean Islands, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Book World Cruising Routes

Download or read book World Cruising Routes written by Jimmy Cornell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to nearly 1,000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world, geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors. It advises on the winds, currents, regional and seasonal weather, and optimum times for individual routes, plus over 6,000 waypoints.

Book Quest in the Caribbean

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Beaupre
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-04-14
  • ISBN : 9780692590614
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Quest in the Caribbean written by David Beaupre and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the Quest series is 'Quest in the Caribbean'. Wendy and I have become full time sailors. The sea has been kind to us. It has been our home, a very strict master and unforgiving teacher. We slowly learned our lessons of seamanship one day at a time. But more importantly we learned a great deal about each other and what it takes to be good companions on a tiny boat. 'Quest for the Caribbean' begins on a beautiful day in the British Virgin Islands. When we pass through the dangerous, narrow, reef-strewn passage in Virgin Gorda and enter the Caribbean we are one boat length closer to fulfilling our dream. There are many more islands to explore and miles to sail before the journey is complete. Some of the wonders that await our eager eyes are Saba, the fabled 'island in the clouds' and the neighboring island of Statia. The serenely beautiful island of Nevis, Montserrat's volcanoes, the gentle people of Dominica, Saint Lucia and the Grenadines all enrich our lives. 'Quest for the Caribbean' ends on the south shore of Grenada as we are about to fulfill a destiny that was many hard years in the making.

Book The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U S  South

Download or read book The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U S South written by Demetrius L. Eudell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores how former slaves, former slaveholders, and their societies' central governments understood and discussed slavery, emancipation, and the transition between the two. Eudell investigates the public policies--which addressed issues of labor control, access to land, and the general social behaviors of former slaves--used to execute emancipation. In both regions, government-appointed officials (special magistrates in Jamaica and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina) were crucial in implementing these policies. While many former slaves were fighting for the right to be paid for their labor and to own land, many officials came to view their role as part of a new civilizing mission whose goal was to eradicate the psychic damage supposedly caused by slavery. Eudell concludes by examining the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica and the retreat from Reconstruction in South Carolina, part of the larger movement of Redemption that occurred in 1877. Both of these occurrences represented the incomplete victory of emancipation, Eudell argues, and should provoke scholarly questions regarding the persistent thesis of U.S. exceptionalism.

Book On the Rim of the Caribbean

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul M. Pressly
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 0820335673
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book On the Rim of the Caribbean written by Paul M. Pressly and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div

Book A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean

Download or read book A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean written by William T. Stone and published by Sheridan House. This book was released on 1998-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cruising guide covers the Caribbean basin from the Virgin Islands, to the popular Winwards and Leewards, to the fast growing yachting mecca of Venezuela and the island groups around South America's northern coast.

Book Calypso Magnolia

Download or read book Calypso Magnolia written by John Wharton Lowe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders. Focusing on writers and literatures from the Deep South and Gulf states in relation to places including Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a dynamic framework within which to reconsider literary history, genre, and aesthetics. Considering thematic concerns such as race, migration, forced exile, and colonial and postcolonial identity, Lowe contends that southern literature and culture have always transcended the physical and political boundaries of the American South. Lowe uses cross-cultural readings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including William Faulkner, Martin Delany, Zora Neale Hurston, George Lamming, Cristina Garcia, Edouard Glissant, and Madison Smartt Bell, among many others, to make his argument. These literary figures, Lowe argues, help us uncover new ways of thinking about the shared culture of the South and Caribbean while demonstrating that southern literature has roots even farther south than we realize.

Book Postslavery Literatures in the Americas

Download or read book Postslavery Literatures in the Americas written by George B. Handley and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its demise in the nineteenth century, slavery has given rise to an outpouring of literatures that reflect the diversity of its hemispheric legacy, but the discipline of literary studies has been reluctant to admit commonalities among former slave societies in the New World. Examining major novels from the 1880s to the 1970s, George B. Handley shows how fiction from different nations shares what he calls textual simultaneity in revealing parallel narrative anxieties about genealogy, narrative authority, and racial difference. In comparing these novels, Handley demonstrates the ways in which, ironically, U.S. culture tried to shed its own miscegenated Caribbean image of itself during the time of its greatest expansion into the Caribbean. He argues that imperialism was a means by which the United States could pretend to its own whiteness and civilization by creating a new extranational miscegenation. At the same time, the United States' encroachment in the Caribbean created an environment in which the islands' cultures called upon divergent discourses on the legacies of slavery to retain a sense of autonomy. By offering a critique of current postslavery literary criticism in the Americas as well as exemplary comparative readings of novels by important postslavery writers--including William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alejo Carpentier, Jean Rhys, Charles Chesnutt, Cirilo Villaverde, Rosario Ferré, and others--Handley seeks to address the major questions raised by this abundance of postslavery literature and finds meaningful correspondences that begin to show the outlines of a larger tradition of postslavery literature in the Americas.

Book A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean

Download or read book A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean written by William T. Stone and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details yachting routes throughout the Caribbean area and along less-frequented coasts

Book The Cuba Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aviva Chomsky
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-17
  • ISBN : 1478004568
  • Pages : 744 pages

Download or read book The Cuba Reader written by Aviva Chomsky and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.

Book Music and Black Ethnicity

Download or read book Music and Black Ethnicity written by Gerard Béhague and published by . This book was released on 1993-12-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On music and Black ethnicity

Book Re imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean

Download or read book Re imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean written by Hopeton S. Dunn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate, produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa and the Caribbean.

Book A Cruising Guide to the Lesser Antilles

Download or read book A Cruising Guide to the Lesser Antilles written by Donald M. Street and published by Dissertation.com. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Street’s second guide. The first was a mimeographed guide to the Virgin Islands published privately in 1964. That guide opened up the Virgin Islands to the visiting cruising yachtsman and made bare boat chartering possible. This book, Streets second guide, became “The Bible” for all yachtsmen cruising the Lesser Antilles.

Book Caribbean Island Hopping

    Book Details:
  • Author : John C. Wright
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2013-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781492357421
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Caribbean Island Hopping written by John C. Wright and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for boaters with all levels of experience. No glossary of sailing terms needed here. Capt. John's "Island Hopping route" gives you the Caribbean like no one else can. His island hopping route tells you how to cruise from the USA to Aruba while spending every night safely anchored in a safe paradise island cove at sunset. No all night sailing necessary when you follow his Capt. John's "Caribbean Island Hopping" route! Capt. John is the 2012 & 2013's Best Selling author in the nautical markets, and now you get the best and most complete Caribbean cruising information on what to expect and how to cruise the Bahamas and Caribbean, safely, comfortably, and on an affordable boat and budget. From the Best Selling author of "America's Great Loop and Beyond" and "The Frugal Voyager" Capt. John gives you the most popular islands to visit along with the most frugal islands to stay and linger. With over 300 pages featuring the best 50 islands and cays to visit, Capt John gives you the route, the islands, and the information you need to make this dream come true on a very frugal budget. Information includes details about the islands, the people, Customs & Immigration, boat requirements, equipment and provisions, and information on all the best places to stop and see along the way. If you are dreaming or planning to cruise the Caribbean, this will be the most valued book in your nautical library. You will learn all about the type vessel you need, fuel range and fresh water requirements, necessary equipment, electrical needs, and tips on provisioning your boat. You will also learn what to expect all along the way. Yes, you can cruise from the US mainland to Trinidad, Tobago and Venezuela without ever having to sail through the night. Capt. John's "Caribbean Island Hopping" route shows you how you can do it while being safely anchored in a Paradise Island cove every night in time to watch the sunset.

Book A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean and the Bahamas

Download or read book A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean and the Bahamas written by Jerrems C. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: