To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of innumerable coves, on the cane-fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled hits of the peasant villages and the fine houses of the white planters handed down through generation after generation, from the Sugar Barons of a past century. But this was not how the newspaper ...
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To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of innumerable coves, on the cane-fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled hits of the peasant villages and the fine houses of the white planters handed down through generation after generation, from the Sugar Barons of a past century. But this was not how the newspaper columnist, Bradshaw, saw it when he arrived on his first trip to the Caribbean. Bradshaw found Santa Marta a smouldering volcano. This novel is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It is a dramatic story, packed with incident and thrilling in this mounting tension. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the hopes and fears, the complexes and inhibitions of a people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or power, or skill, whose tangled history has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the blood never cools.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Title page detached but there, edge wear and d/j has a small tear at base of the spine, contents are clean.
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Good Acceptable in mylar jacket. DJ has minor staining on back and chipping to spine on bottom edge, now protected in mylar. Previous bookstore stamp inside. Book Club Edition. Some tanning to deckle pages, no markings to pages. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Good in Poor jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Dj is browning, chipped, torn & scuffed with water stains. Cover is rubbed with edgewear. Pages are tanning in margins, there are tape marks on bep, beb, fep & feb.
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Good. No Jacket. Book Novel of life in the 1950s set in the West Indies. Hardcover, 538pp, book shows light soiling on p.18, slight 'cock' to binding. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
