Over the last few years, travel writer Hunter Davies has visited twenty-seven different Carribean islands, some of them several times. The result is this insightful and very personal travelogue-cum-guidebook. Davies writes about all the islands with infectious enthusiasm, focusing on ten of them in depth, including Barbados, Cuba, St. Lucia, Tobago, Grenada, and Antigua. Along the way, he tracks down ex-pats who went to live and work in the Caribbean, hoping for true happiness--or at least a decent tan. He also talks to returnees--West Indians who, after several decades away, have returned to their roots and a different kind of culture shock. An enlightening guide for anyone contemplating a trip to the Carribean.