{"product_id":"a-christmas-in-the-west-indies-9781835523254","title":"A Christmas In The West Indies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Kingsley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Garcia Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Garcia Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - Holiday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronicling his own journey from Southampton to the Spanish Main. Charles Kingsley was an English clergymen, novelist, and historian, best known perhaps for his book The Water Babies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies, Kingsley recounts his travels to the West Indies, largely focused on Trinidad, in 1869.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is in many ways a typical 'travel' book of its time, rich in description and presenting an 'imperial' position and outlook on the colony, although as critics such as Claudia Brandenstein, Simon Gikandi and Catherine Hall have pointed out, this position is complicated and, as Kingsley was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to praise Charles Darwin, in some respects an ambivalent one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKingsley went to the West Indies with liberal and Christian sympathies, but he found it difficult to be objective about what he witnessed due to his theological background and intellectual tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, he supported the strict control and supervision of the indentured Coolies, even though in England he was a strong advocate of emancipation and the creation of a '\"moral bond\"' between employee and employer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGikandi argues that Kingsley reached this conclusion about the West Indian context not because of what he saw there or because of his understanding of the Coolies' own views and perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rather the traveler reaches his conclusions from three mutually informing sources: official reports (both oral and written), intellectual Orientalism, and evolutionary doctrines.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garcia Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45125189238935,"sku":"9781835523254","price":1935.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781835523254.webp?v=1768548287","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-christmas-in-the-west-indies-9781835523254","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}