A High Wind in Jamaica
Subtitle: The Innocent Voyage
Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781568495828
Subjects: General; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: ONE OF THE fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of the ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses, ruined boiling houses; often ruined mansions that were too expensive to maintain.