Journal of a West India Proprietor
English novelist MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (1775-1818) earned the nickname Monk Lewis after the success of his novel The Monk. But here, in this nonfiction work, he dramatizes, often in humorous and insightful fashion, his two year-long stays on the island of Jamaica, in 1815-6 and in 1817. Lewis died at sea the next year returning from the West Indies, which hardly seems surprising when one reads his descriptions of the dangerous Atlantic crossing, when wicked weather and dying livestock meant to serve as food threatened all aboard. But his joy in the beauty of his estates in Jamaica and his enjoyment of the people-both na…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-287-7
- EAN: 9781605202877
- Produktnummer: 35455940
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.4 cm 553 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 553
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