POPE-HENNESSY, JAMES — West Indian summer: a retrospect

London : B. T. Batsford 1943 First Edition 117 p., illustrated with col. and b/w. lithographs HARDCOVER: (Orig. gr. cl. with black lettering, some sunning to covers and spine else a good clean copy in square, tight binding. Wiith dust jacket. VERY GOOD) This is not a travel-book but a book about travellers. it sets out to tell again the published experiences of nine English visitors to the West Indies. Some of these travellers - Raleigh, Trollope, Frude - were famous men; others - Waller, Henry Coleridge, mrs. Carmichael - were little known in their own day and may wel have been utterly forgotten since. Two of them lived in the sixteenth century, one in the seventeenth century, the remainder under George III, George IV, and Queen Victoria. These sketches are chiefly designed to illustrate the reactions of strangers to West Indiean ways of life as well as to the sumptuous scenery of the Caribbean islands during the last three hundred years.The book's aim, in fact, is as limited as its scope.