The West Indies
Subtitle: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 31, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780521386517
Subjects: Historical Geography; Human ecology; Science/Mathematics; Science; Politics/International Relations; West Indies; Social conditions; Earth Sciences - Geography; Business & Economics-Economic Conditions; Science / Geography; Sociology; Economic Conditions; History; Sugar trade
First sentence: To the small party of Europeans who travelled to the New World in the three ships commanded by Columbus in 1492, the physical attractiveness and plenitude of the shores on which they landed, and of their hinterlands, as well as their beneficent climate, all presented a most favourable impression, and one which for a while virtually overwhelmed them.