From Anguilla to Trinidad, the Caribbean offers a huge variety of architectural styles that have been influenced by the many European settlers who colonized the islands, as well as the Africans, Amerindians, and East Indians brought to the region as laborers.
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Anne Hersh is an architect based in Corning, New York. She has been conducting studies of ruins and historic sites throughout the Caribbean assisting local historical societies and museums through Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions which she founded. She currently practices architecture in Nevis and other parts of the Caribbean as well as New York. Her particular interest is historic preservation.
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An exceptionally useful and beautiful work of art!,
This review is from: Searching for Sugar Mills: An Architectural Guide to the Eastern Caribbean (Hardcover)
This is an absolutely fascinating book on the Caribbean - the content, the writing and the photography are all superb.
In addition to its stated purpose of being an architectural guide, it surpasses most travel books in the useful information it imparts to anyone visiting this delightful area or wishing to learn more about its rich culture and heritage. Aside from the stunningly beautiful color photography, the maps and drawings are very helpful and tastefully displayed. This certainly is my new, indispensable reference source on the Eastern Caribbean. I'm amazed at how much relevant and useful information the authors managed to present in one book. It's both beautiful and impressive and a delight to read. I'm definitely ordering many more copies as gifts for friends. - Arpad Kovacsy
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Until the 1970s when the government of Anguilla decided to lure hotels to cut its high unemployment, there weren't many homes at all on this low-lying, dry, scrubby island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
motoring tour, demerara windows, white quoins, elaborate fretwork, hurricane shutters, louvred windows, simple rectangular building, stone ground floor, chattel house, former sugar plantation, hip roof, government guesthouse, tray ceiling, vernacular houses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indian, Open Mon-Fri, Port of Spain, Government House, Travel Tips, Front Street, Macmillan Caribbean, Road Town, Main Street, Gothic Revival, Brimstone Hill, Charlotte Amalie, The Valley, French Revolution, Fort George, United States, Roman Catholic, World War, Carnegie Library, Cruz Bay, Nelson's Dockyard, Carib Indians, Dutch Reformed Church, Strand Street, Open Mon-Sat Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Until the 1970s when the government of Anguilla decided to lure hotels to cut its high unemployment, there weren't many homes at all on this low-lying, dry, scrubby island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
motoring tour, demerara windows, white quoins, elaborate fretwork, hurricane shutters, louvred windows, simple rectangular building, stone ground floor, chattel house, former sugar plantation, hip roof, government guesthouse, tray ceiling, vernacular houses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indian, Open Mon-Fri, Port of Spain, Government House, Travel Tips, Front Street, Macmillan Caribbean, Road Town, Main Street, Gothic Revival, Brimstone Hill, Charlotte Amalie, The Valley, French Revolution, Fort George, United States, Roman Catholic, World War, Carnegie Library, Cruz Bay, Nelson's Dockyard, Carib Indians, Dutch Reformed Church, Strand Street, Open Mon-Sat Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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