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Journal of a West India Proprietor

Journal of a West India Proprietor

Lewis, Matthew Gregory

Paperback

Caribbean HistoryCaribbean & West Indies

ISBN10: 1605202878
ISBN13: 9781605202877
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Nov 1 2008
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
English novelist MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (1775-1818) earned the nickname Monk Lewis after the success of his novel The Monk. But here, in this nonfiction work, he dramatizes, often in humorous and insightful fashion, his two year-long stays on the island of Jamaica, in 1815-6 and in 1817. Lewis died at sea the next year returning from the West Indies, which hardly seems surprising when one reads his descriptions of the dangerous Atlantic crossing, when wicked weather and dying livestock meant to serve as food threatened all aboard. But his joy in the beauty of his estates in Jamaica and his enjoyment of the people--both native and colonial--he encountered there is palpable. As a journal of plantation life during slavery, too, it serves as a potent firsthand document of significant historical import. Readers of fiction, history, and personal diaries will delight in this often overlooked work of early-19th-century literature.

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