Anthony Trollope

The West Indies and the Spanish Main (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Coping with ill-iced claret, rotten walnuts, and withered apples, British Postal Service employee and successful Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope sailed aboard the Atrato from the English port of Southampton to Kingston, Jamaica, in November, 1858 to survey land and conclude treaties in the West Indies and Central America for the English government. In the course of his extended sojourn, he also wrote a book -- not about official business but rather about the islands he visited and the people he met; about breathtaking landscapes, exotic foods, the tropical climate, earthquakes, Panamanian railroads, Cuban cigars, racial hierarchies, and colonial customs. (Goodreads)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965376205
• Artikelnr.: 58661669

Autorenporträt

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and government official during the Victorian era. His best-known works include the Chronicles of Barsetshire, a series of novels set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. He also authored novels about politics, social issues, and gender, among other topics. Trollope's literary fame plummeted in his final years, but he regained some popularity by the mid-twentieth century. Anthony Trollope was the son of barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope and Frances Milton Trollope, a novelist and travel writer. Despite being a brilliant and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Thomas Trollope failed at the Bar because of his nasty temper. Farming ventures proved unproductive, and he missed out on an expected bequest when an elderly childless uncle remarried and had children. Thomas Trollope was the son of Rev. (Thomas) Anthony Trollope, rector of Cottered in Hertfordshire, and the sixth son of Sir Thomas Trollope, 4th Baronet. The baronetcy was later passed down to the descendants of Anthony Trollope's second son, Frederick.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductory
2. Jamaica - town
3. Jamaica - country
4. Jamaica - black men
5. Jamaica - coloured men
6. Jamaica - white men
7. Jamaica - sugar
8. Jamaica - Emperor Soulouque
9. Jamaica - government
10. Cuba
11. The passage of the Windward Islands
12. British Guiana
13. Barbados
14. Trinidad
15. St Thomas
16. New Granada, and the Isthmus of Panama
17. Central America - Panama to San José
18. Central America - Costa Rica - San José
19. Central America - Costa Rica - Mount Irazu
20. Central America - San José to Greytown
21. Central America - railways, canals, and transit
22. The Bermudas
23. Conclusion.