The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

Fermor, Patrick Leigh, The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950. (two copies)

From the New York Review of Books:

In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands.

Also reviewed in The Boston Globe, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Sir Patrick "Paddy" Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during World War II[1]. He was widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer",[2] with books including his classic A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once described him as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene."

Obituary.