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To the informal visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines over summer and winter on the sandy beach locations of countless coves, on the cane-fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled strikes of the peasant villages and the fine residences of the white planters passed down through era after era, from the Glucose Barons of the past hundred years. But this is not how the paper columnist, Bradshaw, saw it when he came on his first visit to the Caribbean. Bradshaw found Santa Marta a smouldering volcano. This book is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It really is a dramatic history, packed with occurrence and thrilling in this mounting pressure. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the desires and concerns, the complexes and inhibitions of the people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or electricity, or skill, whose tangled record has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the bloodstream never cools. Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a English novelist given birth to in London and informed at Sherborne People College, Dorset. Waugh's first book, The Loom of Children (1917), is a semi-autobiographical bill of public college life that caused some controversy at that time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from Old Shirburnian Culture. Despite preparing this record, Waugh went on to become the successful writer of over 50 works, and lived in many incredible places throughout his life which later became the adjustments for some of his text messages. He was also a noted wine beverages connoisseur and campaigned to help make the cocktail party a normal feature of 1920s interpersonal life.
