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A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Island People

English

By (author): Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

In this fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips away the fantasy and myth to expose the real islands, and the real people, that make up the Caribbean.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 351g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Feb 2018
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781782115625

About Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New Yorker, Harper's, the Believer, Artforum, and the Nation, among many other publications. Educated at Yale and Berkeley, he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. This is his first book.

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