A review by bobednj
Caribbean by James A. Michener

4.0

Huge book, very informative but a bit of a textbook slog to get through. When I consider that the author was about 83 years old when he completed this work, I have to think of it as an amazing effort. The one thing I really did not like was the creation of a fictional island to describe elements of the Caribbean world. This book tried to be historically accurate but that device made me question everything too much. I am someone who prefers a book of 300 pages or so, but I was able to get thru it because each chapter was somewhat independent of the others and tended to focus on a particular island, region, or time period.