At Last (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Christmas in the West Indies

by Charles Kingsley

Overview

Author and clergyman Charles Kingsley took a tour of the West Indies in 1870, producing notes to become this narrative a year later. An account of his travels, this is a fascinating and engaging look at travel in the late-nineteenth century and the way in which the English though of the people of the West Indies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411450622
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	05/03/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	442
File size:	900 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist—most closely associated with the West Country and Hampshire. Among his novels, the best known are Hypatia, Westward Ho!, and Hereward the Wake. He is also the author of the children’s classic The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, a story about a boy chimney sweep.