By Patrick Leigh Fermor
In this, his first e-book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his stories of a private odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves gather copious quantities of water. He made his method during the new york chain of the West Indies by way of steamer, aeroplane and crusing send, noting in his files of the voyage the minute info of way of life, of the usual atmosphere and of the idiosyncratic and specified civilisations he encountered among the Caribbean Islands.
From the ghostly Ciboneys and the demise Caribs to the spiritual eccentricities just like the Kingston Pocomaniacs and the terrible Whites within the Islands of the Saints, Patrick Leigh Fermor recreates a shiny global, wealthy and lively with life.
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