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1 online resource (327 pages) |
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Vagabonds
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Vagabonds
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Summary |
Elspeth Baillie, a young Scottish actress, is chosen by enigmatic impresario Lord Coak for an acting career on the Island of Barbados. At first fĂȘted by the colonial gentry, her life in the Caribbean does not go according to plan. Elspeth is obliged to take on a temporary and ambiguous role in the closed world of Coak's remote sugar plantation. Dolan's plot is full of unexpected twists as Elspeth becomes ever more the prisoner of a venture whose founding principle is white supremacy. Captain Shaw, the factor, sets about building a New Caledonia whose reality for Elspeth and her new compatriots |
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Barbados -- Fiction
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Barbados. |
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Electronic books
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OverDrive, Inc
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ISBN |
9781908251091 |
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1908251093 |
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