The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction.

"Based on Treasure Island, or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola, first published by Cassell and Co., in 1883."

This original narrative demonstrates that the transition to sugar and the plantation complex was more gradual in the French properties than generally depicted--and that it was not inevitable.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, Jim Hawkins and his innkeeper mother find a treasure map that may lead them to a pirate's fortune.

An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century

This book is a classic novel of an Irish rebel who escapes his sentence becomes a notorious Caribbean pirate.

The slave market in Seville, while still relatively small, became one of the most active in Europe.

The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century ...

" SUNDAY TIMES "Huxley, voyaging on the backbone of Central America, makes its vertebrae the pegs for cosmic speculations. Nearer Bacon than Baedeker, brilliance illuminates every page of this book. A winner.

A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator.