West Indies
Here are entered works on the extended archipelago that separates the Caribbean Sea from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean, and consists of the Bahamas and the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- West Indies -- Bibliography
- West Indies -- Commerce
- West Indies -- Description and travel
- West Indies -- Discovery and exploration
- West Indies -- Economic conditions
- West Indies -- Fiction
- West Indies -- History
- West Indies -- Juvenile fiction
- West Indies -- Languages
- West Indies -- Social life and customs
- Antilles, Greater
- Antilles, Lesser
- West Indian literature
- West Indies, British
- West Indies, French
- Bahamas
- Anglo-Spanish War, 1739-1748 -- Campaigns -- West Indies
- Black people -- West Indies
- Children -- West Indies
- Cults -- West Indies
- Denmark -- Commerce -- West Indies
- Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596 -- Travel -- West Indies
- Enslaved persons -- West Indies
- Ethnology -- West Indies
- Folklore -- West Indies
- Fugitive slaves -- West Indies
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- West Indies
- Indian art -- West Indies
- Indian pottery -- West Indies
- Modernism (Literature) -- West Indies
- Murder -- Investigation -- West Indies
- Natural history -- West Indies
- Pilot guides -- West Indies
- Plantation life -- West Indies
- Romanticism -- West Indies
- Sea monsters -- West Indies
- Slave trade -- West Indies
- Slavery -- West Indies
- Vodou -- West Indies
- Wasps -- West Indies
- Witchcraft -- West Indies
- Antilles
- Caribbean Islands
- Islands -- Caribbean Area
- Islands of the Caribbean
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A Statistical Account of the West India Islands, Together With General Descriptions of the Bermudas, Bay Islands, and Belize, and the Guayana Colonies (New York: J. H. Colton and Co., 1855), by Richard Swainson Fisher
- Bibliography of the West Indies (Excluding Jamaica) (Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1909), by Frank Cundall
- Dalle Antille alle Gujane e all'Amazzonia (second edition, in Italian; Rome: Rivista Marittima, 1908), by Gregorio Ronca
- Lands of the Inner Sea: The West Indies and Bermuda (New York: Coward-McCann, c1948), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gardens of the Caribbees; Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1904), by Ida May Hill Starr
- Sailing Sunny Seas: A Story of Travel in Jamaica, Honolulu, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Dominica, Martinique, Trinidad and the West Indies (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1909), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Wonders of the West Indies (London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1856), by Mrs. Henry Lynch
- Days and Nights in the Tropics (Toronto: Morang and Co., 1905), by W. R. Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics, by J. Milton Mackie (page images at MOA)
- In the Wake of the Buccaneers (New York and London: The Century Co., 1923), by A. Hyatt Verrill
- Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, or, Yachting in the New World (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber and Co., 1845), by Mrs. Houstoun (page images at Mystic Seaport)
- A Brief Account, Together With Observations, Made During a Visit in the West Indies, and a Tour Through the United States of America, in Parts of the Years 1832-3; Together With a Statistical Account of Upper Canada (Dundas, ON: G. H. Hackstaff, 1836), by Thomas Rolph
- Froudacity, by J. J. Thomas (Gutenberg text)
- The West Indies: Being a Description of the Islands, Progress of Christianity, Education, and Liberty Among the Colored Population Generally (Boston: Dow and Jackson, 1841), by Nancy Prince
- Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1889), by Hesketh Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (second and revised edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1893), by Hesketh Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles (London: Richard Bentley, 1852), by Henry J. Coke (page images in Germany)
- Latitude 19°: A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield, illust. by George Gibbs (Gutenberg text)
- Gold Out of Celebes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by A. E. Dingle (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Collection de Cent-Cinquante Gravures Représentant et Formant une Suite Non-Interrompue des Voyages et Aventures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé (150 illustrations with French captions retelling the story of Robinson Crusoe; Vevey: Loertscher et fils, n.d.), by Daniel Defoe, illust. by F. A. L. Dumoulin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being The Second and Last Part of His Life, and of The Strange Surprizing Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of The Globe; Written by Himself. (third edition; London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1722), by Daniel Defoe
- Serious Reflections During The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of The Angelick World (London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720), by Daniel Defoe
- Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1899), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by George Atherton Aitken, illust. by Jack B. Yeats (page images at Google)
- The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (London: Methuen and Co., c1910), by C. H. Haring (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Drake's Great Armada, by Walter Bigges (Gutenberg text)
- The Radio Detectives in the Jungle (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by A. Hyatt Verrill
- Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Regional Study (1989), ed. by Sandra W. Meditz and Dennis Michael Hanratty
- Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft (third printing; New York: Dial Press, 1933), by Joseph J. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft (New York: Dial Press, 1932), by Joseph J. Williams
- Lands of the Inner Sea: The West Indies and Bermuda (New York: Coward-McCann, c1948), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
- Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1889), by Hesketh Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (second and revised edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1893), by Hesketh Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Something About Obeah (Kingston: M. C. DeSouza, 1891), by Herbert T. Thomas
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols (Gutenberg text)
- Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English (3 volumes; New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1933-1943), by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pottery From Certain Caves in Eastern Santo Domingo, West Indies (contributions from the Heye Museum #9, reprinted from The American Anthropologist; 1915), by Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Simon Gikandi (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida: Containing an Account of the Natural Produce of All the Southern Part of British America, in the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Particularly the Animal and Vegetable (only volume published, with an appendix giving area sailing directions; New York: Printed for the author, 1775), by Bernard Romans, contrib. by William Brown (HTML at Evans TCP)
- Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's; With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists (London: Samuel Maunder, 1831), by Ashton Warner and Susanna Moodie (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Great News From the West-Indies: Sent in a Letter to a Merchant of London, November the 28th, 1687 (London: Printed by H. Wallis, 1687), by F. H.
- Emancipation of the West Indies: A Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837 (Anti-Slavery Examiner #7; New York: American Anti-slavery Society, 1838), by James A. Thome and J. Horace Kimball
- The Right Way the Safe Way, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere (1860), by Lydia Maria Child
- The Right Way the Safe Way, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere (1862), by Lydia Maria Child
- Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's; With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists (London: Samuel Maunder, 1831), by Ashton Warner and Susanna Moodie (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft (third printing; New York: Dial Press, 1933), by Joseph J. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft (New York: Dial Press, 1932), by Joseph J. Williams
- The North American and West Indian Digger Wasps of the Genus Sphex (Ammophila Auct.) (Deland, FL: E.O. Painter Printing Co., 1934), by H. T. Fernald (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft (third printing; New York: Dial Press, 1933), by Joseph J. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft (New York: Dial Press, 1932), by Joseph J. Williams
- Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1889), by Hesketh Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (second and revised edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1893), by Hesketh Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
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