Caribbean Islands (Lonely Planet Country Guides)

by Alex Leviton (Author), Conner Gorry (Author), Debra Miller (Author), Michael Read (Author), Michael Read (Author), Alex Leviton (Author), Conner Gorry (Author), Debra Miller (Author), Ryan Ver Berkmoes (Author), Thomas Kohnstamm (Author), Virginia Otis (Author), Jill Kirby (Author), Oda O'Carroll (Author)

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  2005

  $3.29

  expanded coverage of the entire Caribbean - from the ABC Islands to Trinidad & Tobago - plus the Bahamas new scuba diving chapter written by an expert author more full-colour photographs and maps (100+) than any other guide to the region tourist arrivals showing increases of up to 30 per cent this year Antigua boasts that it has 365 beaches, 'one for each day of the year' Antigua's so-called 'black pineapple' is only that colour when young and unripe - it is generally smaller and sweeter than pineapples grown in South America or Hawaii over 700 islands and 2500 cayes (pronounced 'keys') make up the Bahamas technically, the Bahamas (and Turks & Caicos) lie outside the Caribbean Sea some people in the Bahamas believe that if you take the 'bibby' (mucus) from a dog's or horse's eye and put it in your own, you can actually see a spirit

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  2001

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  Gives up-to-date information on island-hopping by ferry or plane and explores the greatness of the Lesser Antilles. A new special section on Caribbean music and Caribbean arts and crafts and with on stones left unturned from Carnaval on the largest island, Trinidad, to the tiny, rugged an often overlooked Saba.