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From the moment Columbus gazed on the land he mistook for India, the islands of the Caribbean have been the subject of daydreams and fantasy. This absorbing book, the result of ten years travel, strips away the myths to reveal the real Caribbean, a region that has produced some of the worlds most influential artists, activists, writers, musicians and sportsmen, as its people speak for themselves about their home and...
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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York, Harper's, the Believer, Artforum, and the Nation, among many other publications. Educated at Yale and Berkeley, he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. This is his first book.
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Chapter 11
HEADING SOUTH
Antigua
Taxi drivers. You meet a lot them when traveling. Especially when visiting small places lacking public transit. You end up, when exploring such places, absorbing more from people who drive cars for a living than from people engaged in any other occupation. There’s a reason much “travel literature” and reportage, about such places, can leave the impression that cabbies comprise the majority...
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- PublisherCANONGATE BOOKS
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1782115587
- ISBN 13 9781782115588
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages464
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