The Traveller's Tree

Name: The Traveller's Tree
Brand: John Murray
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A Journey through the Caribbean Islands

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Paperback | 3 January 2005 | Edition Number 1

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416 Pages

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In the decade following his epic journey across Europe on foot recounted in A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor embarked on a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree indigenous to the Caribbean, whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, aeroplane and sailing ship, noting in his records of the voyage the minute details of daily life, of the natural surroundings and of the idiosyncratic and distinct civilisations he encountered amongst the Caribbean Islands.
The journey took him through Guadeloupe, Martinque, Grenada, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Haiti, and Jamaica, amongst others. From the ghostly Ciboneys and the dying Caribs to the religious eccentrics like the Kingston Pocomaniacs and the Poor Whites in the Islands of the Saints, Patrick Leigh Fermor recreates a world rich and vigorous with life.

Industry Reviews

Paddy's portrayal of the islands could be said to have jump-started the tourism industry upon which the Caribbean has since largely depended - Geographical Magazine

Being a natural romantic ... he was able to probe the hidden recesses of this mixed civilisation and to present us with a picture of the Indies more penetrating and original than any that has been presented before - Harold Nicolson, The Observer

He is the ideal traveller, inquisitive, humorous and vivid in depicting - Sunday Times

Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better - Geographical Magazine

John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world? - Geographical Magazine

A substantial and fascinating work, with the adventurer's signature across every page - Daily Mail

No-one has captured and evoked the extraordinary differences between the islands better - Geographical Magazine

Amusing, knowledgeable, and percipient, it is everything a travel book should be. - The Good Book Guide

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