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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $79, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCRB120)		  
Insight Guide Caribbean: The Lesser Antilles  •  Sarah Cameron  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES
This handsome travel guide gives a profusely illustrated overview of the region, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture, as well as hundreds of photos and maps and some limited practical information. (CRB02, $24.99)		   Insight Guide Caribbean: The Lesser Antilles
Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life  •  Paul Humann
FIELD GUIDE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 80 PAGES
A compact guide illustrating all the fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants you are most likely to encounter in less than 15 feet of water in the Caribbean. Humann's photographs are among the best we've seen for identification -- and its handy size makes it perfect to take along in the boat or to the beach. (DIV02, $14.95)		   Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life
A Continent of Islands, Searching for the Caribbean Destiny  •  Mark Kurlansky
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1992 •  PAPER  • 324 PAGES
An in-depth study of the social history and politics of the Caribbean by a far-ranging journalist, excellent reading for travelers to the region. Organized as a series of independent essays with titles such as "Color-Coded Nations," the book is an insightful and frank look at the culture, music and religion of the Caribbean islands -- and the prospects for the future. (CRB12, $17.95)		   A Continent of Islands, Searching for the Caribbean Destiny
A Small Place  •  Jamaica Kincaid
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2000 •  PAPER  • 81 PAGES • FAVORITE
A stunning achievement, this book by Antigua-born Kincaid meditates on the politics, history and culture of the island. She exposes the poverty, corruption and startling beauty of the Caribbean in this book -- a thought-provoking antidote to the usual fun-in-the-sun approach of the local tourist office. Essential reading for anyone interested in the Caribbean and tourism. (CRB03, $13.00)		   A Small Place
Lesser Antilles Map  •  Nelles
2007 •  MAP
A nice shaded relief map of the Lesser Antilles (the eastern part of the Caribbean), including the Venezuelan coast, at a scale of 1:2,500,000, with more detailed maps of every important island from St. Thomas to Trinidad on the reverse side. Fine for both regional overview and island detail. It includes inset maps of the Virgin Islands, Anegada, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Barbados, Anguilla & St. Martin, St. Barts, Saba, St. Eustatius, the Grenadines, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, Montserrat, St. Vincent, Barbuda, Antigua, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, La Desirade, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Haiti & the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Two Sides. 20x40 inches. (CRB05, $13.95)		   Lesser Antilles Map



Also Recommended

Caribbean Destination Map  •  National Geographic    •  A colorful map of the entire Caribbean basin from southern Florida to South America at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (CRB31, $16.95)
 		  
Caribbean Islands Explorer Map  •  Ocean Explorer Maps    •  A double-sided, full-color visitor's map. (CRB175, $11.95)
 		  
Eastern Caribbean Cruise Tour Guide  •  Coastal Cruise Tour Guides    •  A handy guide and booklet that unfolds to a six-foot-long full color map. It features historical background, visitor attractions and maps of all the islands from Puerto Rico to Trinidad. (CRB135, $15.95)
 		  
Caribbean by Cruise Ship  •  Anne Vipond   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent guide to the region with detailed port maps, suggested excursions, color photographs and a pull-out map of all the Caribbean. (CRB146, $19.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Caribbean  •  Polly Thomas   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Another gem in the Eyewitness series, this superb guide -- packed with photographs, illustrations, and maps -- includes the the best places to dive, snorkel, sail and play golf. (CRB251, $30.00)
 		  
Fodor's Caribbean  •  Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Organized by island, this hefty guide to the Caribbean provides the essentials for getaway vacations with great maps, excellent recommendations on where to sleep and eat, and plenty of advice for sightseeing. (CRB185, $24.99)
 		  
Moon Handbook Virgin Islands  •  Susanna Henighan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive travel guide to the islands with an overview of history and culture. It contains 21 maps and plenty of information on snorkeling and diving. (CRB48, $17.95)
 		  
The Spice Necklace, My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life  •  Ann Vanderhoof   • FOOD  •  Vanderhoof (An Embarrassment of Mangoes) is back aboard her sailboat in the Caribbean in these latest encounters with the characters and cuisine of the islands. She pairs lively accounts with 71 recipes she learned along the way. (CRB260, $14.95)
 		  
A Brief History of the Caribbean, From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present  •  Jan Rogozinski   • HISTORY  •  Written for a scholarly audience, this concise history presents the full sweep of Caribbean geography, culture and commerce from aboriginal inhabitants through European colonization and modern developments. (CRB38, $18.00)
 		  
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies  •  Bartolome de las Casas  •  Nigel Griffin   • HISTORY  •  A graphic chronicle of human rights abuses and an appeal to the conscience of Spain written in 1542 by a witness. (CRB44, $13.00)
 		  
A Traveller's History of the Caribbean  •  James Ferguson   • HISTORY  •  A concise history of the Caribbean Islands, beginning with a description of the islands' formation and geologic attributes and carrying through the first civilizations in the region all the way up to the modern tourism boom. (CRB42, $14.95)
 		  
Island Dreams Caribbean  •  Joan Tapper   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Joan Tapper, founder of Islands Magazine, collaborated with photographer Nik Wheeler for this visual celebration of the nature, people and culture of the islands, featuring 200 color photographs. (CRB256, $40.00)
 		  
Under the Black Flag, The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates  •  David Cordingly   • HISTORY  •  Meet Blackbeard and Captain Kidd along with lesser-known rogues and brigands in this rip-roaring portrait of pirates of the Caribbean. (CRB35, $16.00)
 		  
Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola  •  Michele Wucker   • HISTORY  •  The story of the historic tensions between two countries which share a single island but are divided by history, language, race and class. (CRB46, $16.00)
 		  
The Day is so Long and the Wages so Small, Music on a Summer Island  •  Samuel Barclay Charters   • MUSIC  •  Part travelogue and part enthomusicology, this book tells the story of Charters's discovery of the musical traditions of the Bahamas in 1958. (CRB68, $14.95)
 		  
Brother, I'm Dying  •  Edwidge Danticat   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The captivating, extraordinary memoir of the Haitian-born New Yorker and the two men, her uncle in Haiti and father in the United States, who raised her. (CRB214, $15.00)
 		  
Empire of Blue Water, Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, And the Catastrophe That Ended th  •  Stephan Talty   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean. (CRB204, $14.95)
 		  
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives  •  David Cordingly   • EXPLORATION  •  A fascinating survey of women who went to sea, as wives, crossdressing cabin boys or even lighthouse keepers, during the age of sail. (OCE94, $17.00)
 		  
A Caribbean Mystery  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  Miss Marple solves a series of mysterious deaths on the Caribbean island where she is vacationing in this classic Agatha Christie, originally published in 1964. (CRB207, $12.00)
 		  
At the Bottom of the River  •  Jamaica Kincaid   • LITERATURE  •  Ten short stories capturing the essence of Jamaica Kincaid's childhood in Antigua. Originally published in the New Yorker, the collection evokes the rhythms of work and play in the Caribbean. (CRB19, $13.00)
 		  
Captain Blood  •  Rafael Sabatini   • LITERATURE  •  An original riveting tale of swashbuckling adventure on the Spanish Main. (CRB165, $16.00)
 		  
Don't Stop the Carnival  •  Herman Wouk   • LITERATURE  •  For a sense of life in the Caribbean, we recommend this humorous tale of Norman Paperman, a middle-aged American running a hotel on the fictional island of Amerigo. (CRB18, $15.99)
 		  
Easy in the Islands, Stories  •  Bob Shacochis   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of short stories and one of the most evocative depictions of daily life on the islands. Shacochis's characters, from islanders and interlopers, all ring true and his writing is a graceful tribute to the music, politics and cultural quirks of the Caribbean. (CRB78, $13.00)
 		  
Tar Baby  •  Toni Morrison   • LITERATURE  •  Morrison departs from her usual stateside setting and sets this fury of a novel on a rich American couple's island refuge in the Caribbean. This unflinching novel is menacing, beautiful and richly developed. (CRB150, $14.00)
 		  
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  •  Junot Diaz   • LITERATURE  •  The Dominican-born New Yorker's long-awaited multi-layered tale of the hopes and dreams and tumult of the hugely overweight, hopelessly confused young New Jerseyite of the title. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. (CRB213, $16.00)
 		  
The Pyrates  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  A master storyteller, Fraser shows his usual high-voltage mix of research and verve in this swashbuckling tale including a cast of thousands, a deliciously absurd plot and absolute historical accuracy. (CRB39, $16.95)
 		  
The Reef  •  Nora Roberts   • LITERATURE  •  Roberts takes readers to the depths of the Caribbean -- and the heights of passion and suspense -- in this tale of a marine archaeologist and a salvager in search for a legendary treasure. (CRB257, $15.00)
 		  
Wide Sargasso Sea  •  Jean Rhys   • LITERATURE  •  This short novel by Dominican-born Jean Rhys is steamy -- both in its lush, tropical setting and in its plot. The book imagines the encounter between Edward Rochester and his mad wife -- a sort of prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. (CRB21, $13.95)
 		  
Wild Caribbean, The Hidden Wonders of the World's Most Famous Islands  •  Michael Bright   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Nicely illustrated, this companion book to the BBC series on the natural history of the Caribbean includes an overview of the plants, animals and underwater life of the islands from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago. (CRB206, $25.00)
 		  
200 Conspicuous, Unusual, or Economically Important Tropical Plants of the Caribbean  •  John Kingsbury   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A general purpose plant identification guide to Caribbean shores, also useful for subtropical Florida. Features color photographs and short plant descriptions. (CRB01, $20.00)
 		  
A Guide to the Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands  •  Herbert Raffaele   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A thorough, compact field guide and introduction to the natural history of the birds of the region, including winter visitors and featuring 25 color plates. (CRB17, $35.00)
 		  
A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago  •  Richard Ffrench   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive field guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. (CRB16, $39.95)
 		  
A Photographic Guide to Birds of the West Indies  •  Allan Sander  •  G. Michael Flieg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact shirt-pocket guide. With a map of the islands and 300 color photographs. (CRB127, $15.95)
 		  
Birds of the West Indies  •  Herbert Raffaele   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A magnificently illustrated guide, featuring 86 color plates, range maps, and island checklists. Includes the endemic species of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica and other islands. (CRB161, $24.95)
 		  
Caribbean Birds  •  James Kavanaugh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A fold-up, laminated card featuring color drawings and short descriptions of commonly encountered Caribbean birds. (CRB235, $5.95)
 		  
Fishwatcher's Field Guide Caribbean  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A convenient double-sided plastic card showing 75 reef fish of the Caribbean. (DIV11, $7.50)
 		  
Marine Invertebrates of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A convenient double-sided plastic card showing 61 invertebrates of the Caribbean. (DIV12, $7.50)
 		  
Reef Fish Identification Caribbean  •  Paul Humann   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This definitive guide for underwater enthusiasts features 670 stunning color photographs of all the fishes of the tropical Atlantic. We also recommend Gulf of California (BJA39), Galapagos (DIV04) and Tropical Pacific (DIV49) in the same series, $39.95 each. (DIV03, $39.95)
 		  
Reefcomber's Guide, Caribbean  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This double-sided laminated card depicts fish, corals and other invertebrates of the Caribbean. (DIV46, $7.50)
 		  
 
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