An edition of Tales of Tortola and the British Virgin Islands (1966)

Tales of Tortola and the British Virgin Islands

recounting nearly five centuries of lore, legend and history of Las Virgines, including much incidental information on Virgin Gorda, Anegeda, Jost Van Dyke, Fallen Jerusalem & many other islands ; much ado from the time of Columbus to the Queen's visit ; diverse information on pyrates, personages, shipwrecks, war, hurricanes and buried treasures ; tales of plantation life, making sugar & rum, insurrections, emancipation, and the Colony's decline & rise

By Florence Lewisohn