Elma Napier: Black and White Sands

Cover: 9780953222445 | Black and White Sands | Elma Napier | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2014

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Elma Napier's remarkable memoir chronicles her love affair with the wild Caribbean island of Dominica. It began in 1932 when she turned her back on London's high society to build a home in Calibishie, a remote village on Dominica's north coast. There are tales of literary house parties, of war and death, smugglers and servants and, above all, of stories inspired by her political life as the only woman in a colonial parliament. She writes deftly about the island's turbulent landscapes and her curiosity about the lives and culture of its people.
Elma Napier was born in Scotland in 1892, the daughter of Sir William Gordon Cumming, who was accused of cheating while playing cards with the Prince of Wales. After living in Australia for nine years, Napier settled in Dominica with her second husband in 1932. She became the first woman to sit in any West Indian parliament. Apart from Black and White Sands (written in 1962), she wrote two novels and two memoirs of her early life. She died in Dominica in 1973.

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Elma Napier (1892-1973) wrote Black and White Sands in the 1960s in Dominica. By then she had written two novels, Duet in Discord and A Flying Fish Whispered, both published before the second world war, and two memoirs, Youth is a Blunder and Winter is in July.

Elma Napier was born in Scotland, the daughter of Sir Wiliam Gordon Cumming, who, famously, was accused of cheating while playing cards with the Prince of Wales. She settled in Dominica in 1932 with her husband and two young children and built a home, known as Pointe Baptiste, on the then remote north coast of the island.

She later became the first woman to sit in a Caribbean parliament and first served in Dominica's Legislative Assembly in 1947. She died in Dominica in 1973.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Produktart:	Reiseführer
Region:	Nordamerika
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780953222445
ISBN-10:	0953222446
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Napier, Elma
Hersteller:	Papillote Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 133 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Elma Napier
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.12.2014
Gewicht:	0,356 kg