Clean, Sweet Wind: The Watermen of the West Indies

Clean, Sweet Wind: The Watermen of the West Indies
Douglas C. Pyle

As a young man, Douglas Pyle sailed his small boat throughout the Caribbean, ostensibly to measure, photograph and describe indigenous workboats. In this book he does much more. Clean, Sweet Wind is a lyrical evocation of a place and time, the Lesser Antilles from Grenada to the Virgin Islands around 1970. Before the tourist boom, life in the Caribbean revolved around boats and the communities that built them. Through these stories of boatbuilders and fishermen we glimpse a society as vivid as the aquamarine waters of its reefs and the patched sails of its graceful fishing boats and interisland traders.

In Which I Meet My First Boat Builders. Passage to Grenada. Carriaco You Going. Bequia Sweet. Anguilla Once Again. Make Thee an Ark. Launching Skywave. Tortola, and the ``Next Fella.'' The Beach Boats of St. Martin. The Mystery of Saba. Quietude in St. Eustatius. The Lighters of Nevis and St. Kitts. Sly St. Barts. Somnolence in Montserrat. The Royal Navy, Antigua, and Barbuda. Guadeloupe, The Saintes, and Le Canot Saintois. Dominica, and a Familiar Pattern. The Gommiers and Yoles of Martinique. The Canots of St. Lucia, and Mr. Compton. The Watercraft Vestiges of St. Vincent. Trading with Rosarene. The Pirogues of Trinidad. The Flying Fish Boats and Speightstown Schooners of Barbados. Boat Building in the Lesser Antilles.

Hard 0070526796 Mar 1998 224p. 53 Illus. 6 3/8 x 9 1/4
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Clean, Sweet Wind: The Watermen of the West Indies

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