The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands-Fast Shipping

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In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded asone of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out toexplore the then relatively little-visited islands of the than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region,The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us hisown vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique,Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. Here wewatch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty roads of the countryside and the broadavenues of former colonial capitals, equally at home among the peasantand the elite, the laborer and the artist. He listens to steel drumbands, delights in the Congo dancing that closes out Havana’s Carnival,and observes vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generouscuriosity and easy erudition that readers will recognize from hissubsequent classic accounts A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.