Caribbean Exploration: Books and Articles Online

  1. THE LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: FROM HIS OWN LETTERS AND JOURNALS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS OF HIS TIME By Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Full text of the book is available here, with illustrations.
    To download for free, without illustrations CLICK HERE for a Plain Text (.txt) Copy of the Book
  2. 1492. By Mary Johnston. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, Published October, 1922
    Full text available here, with illustrations. To download for free, without illustrations CLICK HERE for a Plain Text (.txt) Copy of the Book
  3. THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, CALLED THE GREAT ADMIRAL By Elbridge S. Brooks. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1892.
    Full text available here, with illustrations. If the link does not work for any reason try this: Alternate link
    To download for free, without illustrations CLICK HERE for a Plain Text (.txt) Copy of the Book Christopher Columbus
  4. DISCOVERY OF GUIANA By Sir Walter Ralegh, 1595
    Full text of book. To download for free, without illustrations CLICK HERE for a Plain Text (.txt) Copy of the Book
  5. ALONE IN THE CARIBBEAN By Frederic Fenger, 1917 (see especially his chapter "Days with a Vanishing Race")
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  6. Carib-Spanish Dictionary based on the original by Father Breton: a sample is shown at this site; click on their link to download the entire file.
  7. Hyarima and the Saints: A Pageant Play for Santa Rosa by F. E. M. Hosein, 1931.
  8. "Documenting the Myth of Taíno Extinction" by Dr. Lynne Guitar [Most textbooks hold that Tainos, native peoples of the Caribbean, went extinct owing to the onslaught of Spanish-born diseases. Dr. Guitar argues that the extinction is a myth.]