This is a Guide and Art Book of Isla de Providencia, COLOMBIA. Tranquil beaches of soft white sand and scattered palm trees are but one of the things that truly make Providencia and Santa Catalina paradise. Possibly the Caribbean's best kept secret, the islands have not been touched by the commercialism you'll find in other holiday destinations.

"This volume presents new and previously published results for the geology, geochemistry, petrology and isotopic ages from the Providencia island group to unravel its complex history and evolution"--

Settled in the seventeenth century by Puritans, Providence Island, as it was then known, attracted a wide diversity of people from around the world over the next three centuries, including English, Scottish, Afro-Caribbean, American Indian, Irish, Polish, Swedish, Austrian, Chinese, and Spanish immigrants. Part One of this book provides an historical, religious, and cultural background to the development of Providencia Island. Part Two contains genealogical listings of the Robinson, Archbold, Howard, Newball, Taylor, and Britton families, and of those interrelated with them.

The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower--but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower. Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that England’s empire would rise not in barren New England, but rather in tropical Central America. However, Providence became a colony in constant crisis: crops failed, slaves revolted . . . and then there were the pirates. And, as Tom Feiling discovers in this surprising history, the same drama was played out by the men and women who re-settled the island one hundred years later. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism--even today. At first glance it is an island of devout churchgoers - but look a little closer, and you see that it is still dependent on its smugglers. At once intimate and global, this story of puritans and pirates goes to the heart of the contradictory nature of the Caribbean and how the Western World took shape.

PROVIDENCIA, Sean Frederick Forbes’s debut poetry collection, offers deeply personal poetry that digs beneath the surface of family history and myth. This coming of age narrative traces the experience of a gay, mixed-race narrator who confronts the traditions of his parents’ and grandparents’ birthplace: the seemingly idyllic island of Providencia, Colombia against the backdrop of his rough and lonely life in Southside Jamaica, Queens. These lyric poems open doors onto a third space for the speaker, one that does not isolate or hinder his sexual, racial, and artistic identities. Written in both free verse and traditional poetic forms, PROVIDENCIA conjures numerous voices, images, and characters to explore the struggles of self-discovery.