Island People - by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Clustered together in azure-blue waters are a collection of little islands whose culture, history and people have touched every corner of the world. From the moment Columbus gazed out at what he mistook for India, and wrote in his journal of 'the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen, ' the Caribbean has been the subject of fantasies, myths and daydreams. It was claimed, and its societies were built to enrich old Europe, and much later its beaches were splashed across billboards advertising fizzy drinks, its towns and people pictured in holiday brochures. But these islands are so much more than gloss, white sand and palm trees, they form a region rich in colour, beauty and strength. Home of the Rastafarian faith, Che Guevara's stomping ground and birthplace of reggae, the Caribbean has produced some of the world's most famous artists, activists, writers, musicians and sportsmen - from Usain Bolt to Bob Marley and from Harry Belafonte to V.S. Naipaul. In the pages of Island People we hear the voices of the Caribbean people, explore their home and learn what it means to them, and to the world.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This masterwork of travel literature and history provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Caribbean and illuminates its fierce grip on the world's imagination. <p/>From the moment Columbus gazed out from the deck of the <i>Santa María</i> in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Forged by more than three centuries of mass migration and slave labor, the region and its diverse peoples have helped shape the modern world--through politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro takes us from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, chronicling with wit and keen insight this "place where globalization began.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A travelogue of love and scholarship. . . . [It] does the region splendid justice." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Many have tried this before--to get hold of, in its entirety, the volatile, beautiful, relentlessly shifting Caribbean. Nobody has succeeded as dazzlingly." --Marlon James, author of <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i> <p/>"This terrific travel narrative . . . is also a magnificent musical journey (reggae, salsa and ska), a literary odyssey . . . and a heartfelt historical voyage. <i>Island People</i> powerfully shows how places shape people, and how people shape places." --<i>The Observer</i> <p/>"Joshua Jelly-Schapiro possesses both a humanist's irrepressible empathy and a journalist's necessary skepticism. He reports carefully, researches exhaustively, cares deeply, and writes beautifully."--Dave Eggers, author of <i>Heroes of the Frontier</i> <p/>"Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's grand book on the Caribbean is so striking in form and vision that it amounts to something new--a constant surprise."--Hilton Als, author of <i>White Girls</i><br><i> </i> <br>"Written with passion and joyful music in the prose, <i>Island People</i> will become an indispensable companion for anybody traveling to the Caribbean--or dreaming of doing so."--Suketu Mehta, author of <i>Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, </b>a geographer and writer, is a regular contributor to the<i> The New York Review of Books</i> who has also written for <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>New York, Harper's</i>, the<i> Believer</i>, and <i>The Nation</i>, among many other publications. He is the author of <i>Island People: The Carribbean and the World</i>, and the co-editor (with Rebecca Solnit) of <i>Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas</i>. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, where he also teaches.
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