Historic Jamaica is a historical survey by Frank Cundall, published in 1915. It explores the island's past through its monuments, buildings, and significant places, reflecting on the value of preserving heritage. Listeners interested in Caribbean history will find it an informative guide to Jamaica's cultural and historical landscape.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
Transcriber’s Note: The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
HISTORIC JAMAICA
Is it nature or by the error of fantasie that the seeing of places we know to have been frequented or inhabited by men whose memory is esteemed or mentioned in Stories, doth in some sort move and stirre us up as much or more than the hearing of their noble deeds or reading of their compositions?
Montaigne
The care which a nation devotes to the preservation of the monuments of its past may serve as a true measure of the degree of civilization to which it has attained.
Les Archives Principales de Moscou du Ministère
des Affaires Etrangères, Moscow, 1898.
UP-PARK CAMP IN 1840
From a coloured lithograph by Joseph B. Kidd
HISTORIC JAMAICA
BY
FRANK CUNDALL, F.S.A.
SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA WITH FIFTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED FOR THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA BY THE WEST INDIA COMMITTEE LONDON 1915
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. LTD. AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS LONDON, ENGLAND
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