A High Wind in Jamaica Classics_Gift_Guide Created in collaboration with Bridgeman

Created in collaboration with Bridgeman

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A High Wind in Jamaica Classics_Gift_Guide Created in collaboration with BridgemanRichard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down at the heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and