Download or read book Two Years in the French West Indies written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique. Intending to stay for a few months, he remained for two years. He viewed French-ruled Martinique as an exotic fusion of European, African and Asian influences, the Creole society par exellence. Describing the island's landscape, its flora and fauna, its colonial architecture and rural villages, he provides a picture of a Caribbean colony where slavery was a recent memory and race an all-importan matter of identity.