{"product_id":"the-travellers-tree","title":"The Traveller's Tree","description":"In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as  one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to  explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean.  Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region,  \u003ci\u003eThe Traveller’s Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his  own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique,  Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. Here we  watch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty roads of the countryside and the broad  avenues of former colonial capitals, equally at home among the peasant  and the elite, the laborer and the artist. He listens to steel drum  bands, delights in the Congo dancing that closes out Havana’s Carnival,  and observes vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generous  curiosity and easy erudition that readers will recognize from his  subsequent classic accounts \u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBetween the Woods and the Water\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Patrick Leigh Fermor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51827785040088,"sku":"9781590173800","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/fr\/products\/the-travellers-tree","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}