A midsummer trip to the tropics.--Martinique sketches.--Appendix: Some Creole melodies.

In 1887, Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique. He planned to stay for a few months but remained there for two years. Hearn viewed French-ruled Martinique as a fusion of European, African, and Asian influences. He provides a picture of a Caribbean colony where slavery had just ended, and race was an essential matter of identity. In addition, he beautifully describes the island's landscape, flora and fauna, architecture, and rural villages.

Excerpt from Two Years in the French West Indies Some of the literary results of that sojourn form the bulk of the present volume. Several, or portions of several, papers have been published in harper's mag azin_e; but the majority of the sketches now appear in print for.the first time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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