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Critchell, Laurence Sanford : West Indies: Crossroads of the Caribbean. Volume 72, Pages 319-344. September 1937. An Article from the National Geographic Magazine

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1937

Original publisher's brown wrapper backed with black cloth. Red and blue decorative stripes on front cover. Bound by the Angwin Book Bindery. 6 5/8" x 9 5/8." Pages 319-344, complete. Black and white illustrations and reprinted black and white photographs, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. In the upper-left corner of the front cover are numbers handwritten in pen. Green stamp is on the front cover and faintly on the first page that says, "John F. Kennedy Senior High School Library, Sacramento City Unified School District, Sacramento, California." Very small bump at the top edge. A fine copy. The author talks about his impressions of Trinidad, the "Crossroads of the Caribbean," and briefly discusses its history and culture and everyday life on the island. From "West Indies Are Miniatures of Many Lands and Peoples," a subarticle: "Barbados is a calm British pilot fish, absorbed in sugar cane. Curacao is scarcely more than a town set on rock, punishing the empty land by its devotion to oil. Jamaica is natural: the towns are overwhelmed by mountains, jungle, sea; nothing can overcome its vehement beauty. Haiti is African; Antigua is the American West; Martinique is a beautiful hodge-podge, like an Eastern bazaar. In Trinidad there is something of all of them. The Crossroads island is one of those lands which has lost a personality of its own to assume the character of the earth.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft cover

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