At Last (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

A Christmas in the West Indies

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By Charles Kingsley

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On Sale
May 3, 2011
Page Count
442 pages
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BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411450622

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$1.99

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$2.99 CAD

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ebook (Digital original)

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Author and clergyman Charles Kingsley took a tour of the West Indies in 1870, producing notes to become this narrative a year later. An account of his travels, this is a fascinating and engaging look at travel in the late-nineteenth century and the way in which the English though of the people of the West Indies.

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Charles Kingsley

About the Author

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist—most closely associated with the West Country and Hampshire. Among his novels, the best known are Hypatia, Westward Ho!, and Hereward the Wake. He is also the author of the children’s classic The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, a story about a boy chimney sweep.

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