1933 If Crab No Walk: A Traveller in the West Indies

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition of this scarce work. 

In the original cloth binding. 

A charming West Indies travelogue from English historian, novelist and travel writer, Owen Rutter. Here, he discusses his excursions to Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica and more, with observations on the food, people, culture, architecture. He also draws on literary associations, such as the similarities between Tobago and Robinson Crusoe's island. Other societal topics discussed include the discontented young women of the West Indies, farmers, the abolition of slavery, prohibition in Puerto Rico and the effects of the sugar tariff.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-three plates and five in-text maps and diagrams. Collated, complete. 

With twelve pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.