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A highly topical and accessible exploration of the Caribbean Islands, their history and peoples

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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

In this fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips away the fantasy and myth to expose the real islands, and the real people, that make up the Caribbean.

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A heartfelt Caribbean journey . . . through the places, literature and music of the region to beautifully illuminate the histories of people and continents . . . Terrific Observer

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Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a writer, scholar and geographer based in San Francisco. His essays on arts and history have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Harper´s, the Guardian, The Paris Review and American Prospect, amongst other publications. He has contributed chapters and introductions to several books, including an introduction to Patrick Leigh Fermor´s The Traveler´s Tree. He is a lecturer in Geography and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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