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The island of All Saints bears almost identical history to that of St Lucia and has many landmarks in common, with similar names. In other examples, Michener has taken well-known sites and placed them on the Atlantic side of "All Saints' instead of the
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The author mixes fact and fiction, as he notes in the foreword. For example, the story about the island of All Saints is purely fictional, though the book's map shows it as an island in the location of Saint Lucia.
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In researching the book, Michener traveled the Caribbean for three years and consulted over 400 books.
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whose travels to All Saint's Island revolve around the Caribbean obsession over the sport of
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James Michener
Historical
Random House
ISBN
0-394-56561-4
historical novel
James A. Michener
Caribbean
Arawak
Caribs
Arawak
Mayan
Christopher Columbus
Hispaniola
Sir Francis Drake
Barbados
Henry Morgan
St. John's
sugar
Horatio Nelson
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Haitian Revolution
Morant Bay rebellion
John Stuart Mill
Alfred Tennyson
Trinidadian
University of West Indies
Miami

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