The Baths of Absalom

£50 · Offered by Goldsboro Books

This brilliant, poetic and yet essentially critical little book is neither a tract nor a traveloge. It is the reaction of a humane and liberal mind to the visual and spiritual impact of the islands of Santa Lucia, Dominica and Martinique, which reveals the stagnant state of our oldest British colonies and contrasts it with the more sophisticated squalor of their French neighbour...

• Binding: Hardcover

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