Voices in the wind : the forgotten island / by Shirley Walters Faulkner.
By: Walters-Faulkner, Shirley.
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BookPublisher: Bloomington, IN : AuthorHouse, c2006Description: xii, 181 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1418479195 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): History
| Social history | British Virgin Islands | Anegada (British Virgin Islands)DDC classification: 972.972 Summary: The British Virgin Islander sold his legacy for a bowl of porridge- his hometown is bursting at the seams with the outsider to whom he's given Carte Blanche-unaware that his wings have been clipped he is now the endangered specie and must be watchful less he become like the Dodo and Maori-flightless birds from New Zealand extinct for over a century. Marx asserts that history repeats itself, the first is tragedy and the next time farce. 'In the Caribbean we often appear to be sleep-walkers reliving history and repeating the farce.'
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| 972.9 The making of the West Indies / | 972.904 Amerindians to Africans / | 972.907 6 Practice questions in the West Indian history / | 972.972 Wal Voices in the wind : | 972.973 A trip to the beach / | 972.984 1 Chr Aboard the Commandante Pineres : | 972.984 1 Hen A brief history of Grand Bay / |
The British Virgin Islander sold his legacy for a bowl of porridge- his hometown is bursting at the seams with the outsider to whom he's given Carte Blanche-unaware that his wings have been clipped he is now the endangered specie and must be watchful less he become like the Dodo and Maori-flightless birds from New Zealand extinct for over a century. Marx asserts that history repeats itself, the first is tragedy and the next time farce. 'In the Caribbean we often appear to be sleep-walkers reliving history and repeating the farce.'
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