Word: columbus
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...Christopher Columbus, writing to King Ferdinand of Spain from the West Indies, circa...
...Columbus was one of the few travel writers in history who actually discovered the paradises they praised. To be sure, he could not say much for West Indian cookery in his day. Among the then dominant Carib Indians, who were cannibals, la nouvelle cuisine consisted of smoked or stewed Spaniard, followed in later years by filet of Frenchman and Londoner broil. Nor, for that matter, before paths were cleared through jungles and up mountains, could a seafaring man more than sense the islands' dazzling diversity of terrain or the richness of their flora and fauna. Since Columbus first gazed...
From the days of Columbus, most of the islands have been ravaged by colonial strife. Since World War II, many have been despoiled by commercial neocolonialists, with their genius for blanketing beach and meadow with concrete and neon. Few travelers in search of tranquillity and an authentic native culture would risk their dollars or digestions today on such tourist emporiums as San Juan and St. Maarten. The American Virgins have mostly been deflowered by developers; St. Croix has seen mindless racial killing. Trinidad and Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas have become tourist traps. Cuba and, to some extent, Haiti have...
...outpost of Southern France. Often likened to the Saint-Tropez of 20 years ago, the 8-sq.-mi. island boasts 36 restaurants, French bakeries, discos, wind surfing, sailing, a harbor full of yachts, elegant boutiques and enough local eccentrics to fill a Truffaut film. However, St. Barts-named by Columbus for his brother Bartolomeo-is more than a transplanted French beach resort. It is a beautiful, pastoral island, whose inhabitants-95% of the population of 2,800 are white-are mostly of Breton and Norman descent. In villages perched on the hillsides, older women still wear quichenottes, the starched white...
...island was named by Columbus for the great mountaintop monastery in northeastern Spain. Montserrat has a mildly active volcano, Galway Soufriere, which huffs and puffs sulfurous fumes...