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The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands (Paperback)

by Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: John Murray (3 Jan 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0719566843
  • ISBN-13: 978-0719566844
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 231,975 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sunday Times
‘He is the ideal traveller, inquisitive, humorous and vivid in depicting’

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‘Being a natural romantic … he was able to probe the hidden recesses of this mixed civilisation and to present us with a picture of the Indies more penetrating and original than any that has been presented before’ (Harold Nicolson, The Observer )

‘He is the ideal traveller, inquisitive, humorous and vivid in depicting’ (Sunday Times )

'John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world?' (Geographical Magazine )

‘A substantial and fascinating work, with the adventurer’s signature across every page’ (Daily Mail )

'No-one has captured and evoked the extraordinary differences between the islands better' (Geographical Magazine )

'Amusing, knowledgeable, and percipient, it is everything a travel book should be.' (The Good Book Guide )

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dull and disappointing, 22 Jul 2006
By Alex B (Grand Cayman) - See all my reviews
What a dull book. It claims - or at least the one I have does - to be "the single best travel book to emerge from the islands", well if it is it doesn't say much for the others...

I can think of little to recommend it - hopping from island to island without direction, apparently lacking any sense of journey either within the region or by the writer.

There are lots of adjectives - purple prose of the type that has given travel writing a bad name - but, for me at least, they create no sense of wonder at the amazing, remote and `exotic' world the West Indies must have been 60 years ago (it can still be amazing and exotic today, even if it is no longer remote). The book comes across as a no more than dull plod through the tropics by someone with some time to spare and cash to live off.

The descriptions of Voodoo on Haiti are interesting. Haiti gets more space than anywhere else and perhaps it would have been better if he'd written a book just on it. Some of the comments on the class system on the 'British' islands are insightful and of resonance still today, again this is something that could have been developed, instead of being dropped into what at times seems to be fairly plodding diary notes.

I can't help but think of the lyrical journey Norman Lewis would have made - like PLF he would have stayed in the background, but unlike him Lewis would have brought the colour and shade of the Caribbean to life. I would have felt emotions, had a sense of being there - as it is I am there and was just glad to put it down.

Disappointing.
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