Trinidad and Tobago Insight Guide
ISBN: 9812581472
Pub Date: 29 Oct 2004
Learn what it is or was that gave Trinidad and Tobago the cosmopolitan enticements of one of the most fascinating and sophisticated cities in the Caribbean. Discover the true origins (yes true origins) of Trinidad's exuberant bacchanalia of Carnival, its tumultuous past and wealthy and literate present.
Discover why Trinidad and its sister isle have the social pecking order seen today, from the cocoa payols to the "French Creoles", the 'jamets'. Learn of the real history of the carnival, the many mutinies and revolts. Why are the people of Laventille and Belmont are so "bad'? And not least what were the roles of the east Indians (so-called "coolies"), the indigenous Amerindians , and of course Captain Cipriani.
This book provides everything you will ever need to know about TnT - everything you weren't thought at school! Know your history - Get the facts!
Authentic, colourful, and even nostalgic, unhyped - you feel as if you were there while reading it. This is a work every child, youth and adult of TnT should read! Visitors and tourists to the Islands will love and appreciate this book.
ISBN: 9812581472
Pub Date: 29 Oct 2004
Learn what it is or was that gave Trinidad and Tobago the cosmopolitan enticements of one of the most fascinating and sophisticated cities in the Caribbean. Discover the true origins (yes true origins) of Trinidad's exuberant bacchanalia of Carnival, its tumultuous past and wealthy and literate present.
Discover why Trinidad and its sister isle have the social pecking order seen today, from the cocoa payols to the "French Creoles", the 'jamets'. Learn of the real history of the carnival, the many mutinies and revolts. Why are the people of Laventille and Belmont are so "bad'? And not least what were the roles of the east Indians (so-called "coolies"), the indigenous Amerindians , and of course Captain Cipriani.
This book provides everything you will ever need to know about TnT - everything you weren't thought at school! Know your history - Get the facts!
Authentic, colourful, and even nostalgic, unhyped - you feel as if you were there while reading it. This is a work every child, youth and adult of TnT should read! Visitors and tourists to the Islands will love and appreciate this book.
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