Kurun in the Caribbean
by Jacques-Yves Le Toumelin
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- Canonical title
- Kurun in the Caribbean
- Original title
- Kurun aux Antilles
- Original publication date
- 1957 (French) (French); 1959 (English) (English)
- People/Characters
- Le Toumelin, Jacques-Yves; Kurun (cutter); Danmark (3-masted Danish sail-training ship); Moby Dick (prop for 1956 Gregory Peck film); Dr Cecil F. Lyndsey (dentist, Grenada); Dr Slominski (doctor, Carriacou) (show all 12); Zaca (Errol Flynn's 118-ft schooner); Mercator (3-masted Belgian sail-training ship); Josephine Bonaparte (as Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie); Père J. R. Labat (b. 1663, parish priest of Macouba, Martinique); Father Offredo (parish priest of Les Saintes); Christophe Paulin de la Poix, Chevalier de Fréminville (1787-1848)
- Important places
- Bay of Biscay; Madeira, Portugal; Canary Islands, Spain; Atlantic Ocean; Grenada; Carriacou, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (show all 14); Petit St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Saint Lucia; Martinique, France; Diamond Rock, Martinique, France; Dominica; Les Saintes, Guadeloupe, France; Azores, Portugal
- Important events
- Moby Dick film (1954); Soufrière, St Vincent, eruption (1902); Mont Pelé, Martinique, eruption (1902); Diamond Rock, Martinique (1805); Battle of the Saintes (1782)
- Epigraph
- Spake The Most High on the idiosyncrasies of the people of Allah:
THE WANDERERS:
The wanderer is he who circles the globe in search of food for meditation, thereby drawing close to Allah through a longing for so... (show all)litude which springs from his very love of company.
You must know that, in reality, the people of Allah undertake their earthly wanderings solely through an overwhelming relish of the company of their fellow-men.
Muhyi-d-din ibn ' Arabi.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the whte louds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown sp... (show all)ume, and the sea-gulls crying.
John Masefield - Dedication
- To my sister,
and to
All the pilgrim's friends:
The simple hearted, The peace lovers,
The righteous, The valiant. - First words
- In July 1952, when I reached home after my voyage round the world, I had no intention of staying permanently, glad as I was to be reunited with my family and friends.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I put the helm down, came up into the wind and dropped my anchor. It was 7.11. After fifty-five days at sea, the passage was ended. I was home again.
- Original language
- French
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 917.2904 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in North America Mexico, Central America, And The Caribbean West Indies and Bermuda; Caribbean Area subdivisions and modified standard subdivisions Travel; guidebooks
- LCC
- G440 .L4 .A33 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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- English, French
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