ASIN: B004Z1FNIO
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 127
In 1975, London-born New York-bred adventurer Lawrence Bohme set up his crafts shop on the remote West Indian island of San Andres, a possession of Colombia. With the difference that its people are the English-speaking descendants of Jamaican slaves brought there by the British, before the island was ceded to what was then New Spain, in 1822. Lawrence evokes the islanders' unshakeably "Afro-Victorian" view of the world and themselves, their pungent and often graphic patois harkening back to pre-Industrial England as well as Africa, and their strange dream that the English will one day return to free them from the "panyas", that is, the "Spaniards", who for a century had already become Colombians... Here is the loving but unsentimental "guide book" which Lawrence wrote while living on this island of the south-western Caribbean, illustrated with his own pen and ink drawings.A word about ...
