Ballou, Equatorial America

Ballou, Equatorial America

The American author embarks on a journey to visit three Caribbean islands, all in the Antilles, as well as "the principal capitals of South America." The Caribbean portion of the narrative really only takes up the first few chapters, but the author's depictions of the Antilles and of seafaring practices generally are descriptive of that world, while his circumnavigatory route is reminiscent of a generation of explorers whose travels united the "New World" in the eyes of Europeans.

Maturin M. Ballou

Boston, 1892