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The narrator recounts an eight-month tour of the Antilles, visiting major islands and offering episodic sketches of towns, landscapes, plantations, markets, and local customs. The narrative blends personal travel anecdotes and vivid descriptive reporting with practical notes on industries such as sugar and tobacco, scenes of urban life, and accounts of political and social conditions, including foreign administration and labor issues. Illustrated with photographs, the pieces aim to entertain the armchair traveler rather than serve as a systematic guide, alternating relaxed storytelling with observational reportage of people, places, and everyday routines.

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Title: Roaming Through the West Indies

Author: Harry Alverson Franck

Release date: November 17, 2018 [eBook #58289]

Language: English

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Shade-grown tobacco in Porto Rico

ROAMING THROUGH THE WEST INDIES

BY
HARRY A. FRANCK
Author of “A Vagabond Journey Around the World,” “Zone Policeman 88,” “Vagabonding Down the Andes,” etc., etc.
ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1920
Copyright, 1920, by
The Century Co.
TO
MY WIFE, RACHEL,
WITH WHOM THIS WAS THE BEGINNING
OF A FAR LONGER JOURNEY, AND
TO
MY SON, HARRY,
WHO JOINED US ON THE WAY