The West Indies and the Spanish Main

摘要: Coping with ill-iced claret, rotten walnuts, and withered apples, British Postal Service employee successful Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope sailed aboard the Atrato from English port of Southampton to Kingston, Jamaica, in November, 1858 survey land conclude treaties West Indies Central America for government. In course his extended sojourn, he also wrote a book -- not about official business but rather islands visited people met; breathtaking landscapes, exotic foods, tropical climate, earthquakes, Panamanian railroads, Cuban cigars, racial hierarchies, colonial customs.