Caribbean

pen4hire on September 29th, 2009

Destination: The Caribbean Book: A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean: A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Any Place it’s Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen,  by Gary Buslik A Guest Post by Jessie Voigts of Wandering Educators I am happy to share with you today a book that just made [...]

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pen4hire on July 12th, 2009

Do summer days make you wish you were on an island? See some books about about Greek Islands, and specifically about Crete. And over at Spot Cool Stuff, I wrote about my idyll on the island of Siphnos. Or journey to the Caribbean with this British travel writer. Have a nice trip to the islands!

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pen4hire on June 4th, 2009

Destination: Caribbean and British Guiana Book: The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul Quotable Thursday quote: I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul The question is, if a man writes well, does it matter what kind of human being he is? I delayed reading V. S. Naipaul [...]

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pen4hire on April 23rd, 2009

Destination: Caribbean Islands Book: The Traveller’s Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor When last seen in A Traveler’s Library, Patrick Leigh Fermor was hiking across the rough landscape of the Mani peninsula in Greece’s Peloponese.  His journey to the Caribbean came between his adventures in Crete during the war and the many Greek  journeys that he [...]

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