British Caribbean

Caribbean packs 700 dramatic years into a tale teeming with revolution and romance, authentic characters and thunderous destinies. Through absorbing, magnificent prose, Michener captures the essence of the islands in all of their awe-inspiring scope and wonder.

Uncover the allure and depth of the Caribbean paradise known as Jamaica with the riveting eBook, Unearthing Jamaica. This immersive literary journey lifts Jamaica's vibrant history, values, and lifestyle, offering readers an unparalleled insider's perspective. From the deep-rooted origins of the Arawaks, this narrative unfolds the majestic, often tumultuous saga of this fascinating nation. Relive Columbus's arrival, the Spanish Occupation, and heady tales of golden age piracy. Delve deeper to experience the birth, growth, and impact of Reggae, the voice of the island. Indulge in an ...

Romp through the Seventies Caribbean with this light-hearted autobiography. Have you ever felt there must be more to life than this? It was the early Seventies and my husband and I were trapped in the numbing bondage of nine to five jobs. We were young, impulsive and thirsting for new experiences. Throwing caution to the winds we sold our new home and bought tickets on a banana boat to the West Indies. This is the story of our adventures. From Trinidad and Tobago to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Anecdotes include gambling with a Princess and a Baroness, Army mutiny and trial for ...

In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another.

Dive into the amazing story of Jamaica, a country shaped by the trials of slavery and the incredible strength of its people. This audiobook tells how enslaved Africans, despite enduring terrible hardships, built the foundation of Jamaica’s vibrant culture and heritage.

It is the late 1700s and America has won its independence. Ships sail across the Atlantic delivering goods back and forth from America and the Caribbean to Europe. English, Spanish, and Dutch ships routinely make the passage from America and the Caribbean to their home ports back home. While these ships have become bigger, faster, and more reliable in the past three hundred years since Columbus landed, one thing still threatens them; pirates. Captain Nonn has a vendetta against the British for what they did to his family; those are the ships he tends to attack with his battle-tested ship, ...

I remember a poster pinned to the wall in the Departure Lounge of the British Virgin Islands airport. A beautiful picture of a sun kissed, white, palm-fringed beach lapped by a dazzling blue sea. The words read “Feel our sand between your toes and you’ll always return”. My toes had tickled the soft warm sand of Tortola for two years (see my book ‘High and Dry in the BVI’) until circumstances changed and my husband and I returned to the UK to start new lives. That poster haunted me. But after seven long years our dreams of returning to our beloved island were fading. We had a house...

In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Because British sentiments in the Caribbean located danger and evil not just in indigenous populations but in Spanish Catholics as well, Dillman’s work begins with the arrival of Spanish explorers and conquistadors. Colonizing Paradise spans the arrival of English ships and continues through the early nineteenth century and the colonial era.

For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the rebels lost their military gamble, their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle for freedom in the British Atlantic.

Ashanti Cry is a historically accurate account of slavery in the Caribbean. It tells story of five siblings who were captured from their village in Ghana, in 1807, and brought to the island of Jamaica, where they were separated from each other and sold into forced servitude. After several years, enduring the atrocities of the sugar plantation system, as fate would have it, Adisa, the main character in this story, found himself destined to cross path with the sumptuous mistress of the plantation. She was a very pretty woman, a lot younger than her husband, but who had placed her on the shelf...

Secrets, storms, and stolen glances. A pirate queen and a naval officer are forced into a deadly game where betrayal could cost everything. She was sent to hunt the pirate queen. She never expected to fall for her. Captain Brynn Vale is known as the Shadow of the Caribbean — untouchable, uncatchable, and unstoppable. But when she discovers a stowaway aboard the Midnight Serpent, she realizes her greatest threat isn’t a Royal Navy warship, it’s the woman hiding in her hold. Lieutenant Amara Thorne was sent to hunt the most dangerous pirate on the high seas. But nothing could prepare ...

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade. In this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. L. R. James illuminates these epoch-making events.

Captured by pirates at the age of eight when her parents were murdered, Elizabeth Parker has forgotten her past and become one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean. She and her vessel, The Vixen, prey on all ships, American and British, who sail those treacherous waters. Colin Worth, son of a Boston merchant, ran away to sea, and ended up in the young American navy, the executive officer aboard the frigate, U.S. S. Intrepid. After a confrontation with his tyrannical captain, he is marooned in a ship’s boat—left to die at sea. When Elizabeth and her crew, being pursued by Intrepid...

“A salty, sweeping, evocative tale of romance on the high seas—and a good old-fashioned love story..." English sea captain and former privateer Jean Nicholas Powell is headed for the Caribbean on a mission for the Prince Regent when a woman he thinks to be a governess, a friend of his godmother, forces herself aboard, seeking urgent passage to Baltimore. Raised aboard her father’s ships, Tara McConnell can climb the rigging with the best of the Wind Raven’s crew. Though Nick bans her from the rigging, he is soon captivated by her lovely form moving about the deck. Facing high seas, ...

The most fearsome enemy he ever faced. Of all the enemies that our hero has shrunk away from, there was one he feared above them all. By his own admission they gave him nightmares into his dotage. It was not the French, the Spanish, the Americans, or the Mexicans. It was not even the more exotic adversaries such as the Iroquois, Mahratta, or Zulus. While they could all make his guts churn anxiously, the foe that really put him off his lunch were the Ashanti.

Secrets, hurricanes and murder halt Amber's holiday plans on a Caribbean island paradise... Desperate for some rest and relaxation following her weeks of rigorous special agent boot camp training, Amber heads for the Caribbean for the wedding of Ennis (her old university boyfriend and now a movie heartthrob) and his fiancée Siobhan. The island paradise soon turns into a nightmare though when she reaches the Five Palms Resort to discover the resort’s yoga teacher to the stars has been murdered in the spa pavilion – and Siobhan, the bride-to-be, is a suspect. Then a distraught Ennis and ...

At thirty-three, nurse Heather is desperately waiting for her romantic life to begin. Then she meets handsome, strong Anthony and is sure she’s found the one. Brushing any doubts aside, she projects all her hopes for true love onto him. Meanwhile, at a yoga retreat in Spain, happy-go-lucky Joe can’t believe his luck when he meets vivacious, witty Amy. She’s the sharpest, most beautiful woman he has ever dated, and the fact that she’s interested in him feels like a dream come true.

A Caribbean sailing vacation takes a frightening turn with a mysterious death… A year has passed since Janeva Jag witnessed a murder. The endless police inquiries seem finally at an end. It’s time for a relaxing sun-drenched vacation in the tropics. Is it fate, bad luck or something more sinister that brings the Jag family face to face with yet another death. Determined to enjoy their planned Caribbean sailing holiday they try, without success, to ignore a sequence of strange events and threats. Maybe there is a reason to be a bit paranoid, but at least life will return to normal when ...

Fettered Love is an anthology about life, love, and the ability of the human spirit to make courageous choices. Several themes thread through this collection of seven short stories: coming of age, infidelity and betrayal, innocence, prejudice and power, and (of course) the power of love. The stories are beautifully crafted, combining form and substance with intrigue and suspense. Some stories combine simplicity of setting, like a bus ride, with rich characters filled with raw, robust emotion. Other stories will take you on a cultural journey, teaching the old ways of England and the ...

Sometimes in life you may get to live some of your dreams. Standing on my front gallery on St. Croix I look across the channel. On a sunny day I can see St. Thomas and St. John off to my left about 39 miles away. These two islands make up two sides of the three island trinity of this the Virgin Islands, a U.S. possession. St. Croix is the third island. Gazing slightly to my right I can see Tortola in the distance, too. Tortola and so many more islands are located in the British Virgin Islands. These two separate island chains are remarkably close geographically together. These tiny bits of ...