The Islands and the sea : five centuries of nature writing from the Caribbean / edited by John A. Murray.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-324) and index.

Part 1. 1492-1599 Paradise found: the age of conquest. The first letter of Columbus / Christopher Columbus -- Hernando Cortes on the island of Cozumel / Bernal Diaz del Castillo -- A generall historie of the Indies / Gonzalo de Oviedo -- Ferdinando de Soto his voyage to Florida -- A briefe narration of the destruction of the Indies by the Spaniards -- Bartholomew de las Casas -- The sea turtles of the Caribbeans Islands / Pietro Martire D'Anghiera -- The voiage of Captain Rene Laudonniere to Florida / Rene Laudonniere -- The second voyage made by Sir John Hawkins Knight / John Hawkins -- The naturall historie of the West Indies / Joseph Acosta -- The discoverie of the large, rich and beautiful empire of Guiana / Walter Raleigh -- A briefe relation of the severall voyages / George, the earl of Cumberland -- Part 2. 1600-1799 Paradise lost: the age of colonization. A true reportory of the wracke / William Strachey -- An act agaynst the killinge of ouer young tortoyses / The Bermuda Assembly -- A plague of rats upon Bermuda / Richard Norwood -- The manatee, or sea cow / William Dampier -- A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America / Lionel Wafer -- A voyage to the islands / Hans Sloane -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Of the Aboriginies of America / Mark Catesby -- Selections from The Natural History of Barbados / Griffith Hughes -- A country walk in Antigua / Janet Schaw -- The alligator / William Bartram -- Part 3. 1800-1991 Paradise recalled: the age of conscience. Cay Bonito, Cuba / Alexander von Humboldt -- Notes on the West Indies / George Pinkard -- A horseride over the Portland Mountains, Jamaica / Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey -- The most remarkable reef in the West Indies / Charles Darwin -- Cancun and Cozumel / John L. Stephens -- The grand tour up river / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and Bermuda / John Murray -- La Pelee / Lafcadio Hearn -- The tragedy of Pelee / George Kennan -- The banana plantations of Costa Rica / Frederick Upham Adams -- Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas / Elsie Clews Parsons -- A wilderness laboratory / William Beebe -- Letter to Maxwell Perkins / Ernest Hemingway -- The nature of the Everglades / Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- The world of the reef flats / Rachel Carson -- Trinidad / V.S. Naipaul -- Beachcombing in the Virgin Islands / Paul Brooks -- Sea turtles of the Caribbean / Archie Carr -- Natural history / Derek Walcott -- Bernhardsdorp / Edward O. Wilson -- The silent manatee / Roger Caras -- The passing wisdom of birds / Barry Lopez -- Folklore from contemporary Jamaicans / Daryl C. Dance -- Antigua / Jamaica Kincaid -- Of buccaneers and biodiversity / David Rains Wallace -- The coral reef at Akumal / John A. Murray.

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