Caribbean, sea of the new world - german arciniegas

This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century.

Commonweal wrote of the 1946 edition, Arciniegas has written a most informative and entertaining book.

the student of political and social morals will find in it much to ponder.

The New Republic concurred, writing, Senor Arciniegas has a flair for bits of colorful detail and the kind of gossip which makes history come alive.

Not the least of the books virtues are a series of thumbnail biographies of such figures as Amerigo Vespucci, Raleigh, Toussaint, Miranda, Lafitte, William Walker and de Lessep.

This edition also features an introduction by Norman Arciniegas.