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Title

  • Two years in the French West Indies

Summary

  • Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an international writer best known for his books about Japan. Born on the Greek island of Lefkáda, the son of an Irish father and a Greek mother, he was raised in England, Ireland, and France and immigrated to the United States at age 19. He lived first in Cincinnati, where he landed a job as a journalist, and then moved to New Orleans in 1877, where he wrote for several newspapers. His impressionistic writings about the city caught the eye of editors at Harper's Magazine, which in 1887 sent Hearn to the West Indies as a correspondent. The first part of this book is an account of Hearn's "midsummer trip to the tropics," which took him from New York to the Lesser Antilles, with stops in Saint Kitts, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad, Grenada, and Saint Lucia. Hearn was captivated by the French-ruled island of Martinique and its people, where he came to live for two years. The second part of the book consists of 14 sketches of the island, all with French or Creole titles. The book includes photographs, drawings, and an appendix that discusses the music of Martinique and reproduces the melody and lyrics of several Creole songs. In 1890, the year this work was published, Hearn traveled to Japan, where he eventually settled, married a Japanese woman, and became a naturalized Japanese citizen. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Created / Published

  • New York : Harper & Brothers, 1890.

Contents

  • A midsummer trip to the tropics.--Martinique sketches.--Appendix: Some Creole melodies.

Headings

  • -  Martinique--Description and travel

Notes

  • -  "Several, or portions of several, papers have been published in Harper's magazine."--Pref.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LAC snh 2019-06-14 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 431 p. : front., illus., plates. ; 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F2081 .H43
  • F2081 .H43 Copy 3 Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Kebler on Jan. 27, 1959.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 02013435

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Hearn, Lafcadio. Two years in the French West Indies. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/02013435/.

APA citation style:

Hearn, L. (1890) Two years in the French West Indies. New York: Harper & Brothers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/02013435/.

MLA citation style:

Hearn, Lafcadio. Two years in the French West Indies. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/02013435/>.