At Last - A Christmas in the West Indies

Charles Kingsley

Oct 2015 · Read Books Ltd

About this ebook

This rare book is an obscure Victorian travel narrative set in the West Indies and written by the prolific Charles Kingsley. This illuminating text offers an insightful depiction of how the British viewed the people and lands of the Indies, wonderfully written in a way that both informs and entertains. This classic text is a worthy addition to anybody's personal library and will especially appeal to collectors of Kingsley's work. Charles Kingsley was a priest of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire. This book was originally published in 1872 and is proudly republished now complete with original illustrations and a new introductory biography of the author.

About the author

Charles Kingsley, a clergyman of the Church of England, who late in his life held the chair of history at Cambridge University, wrote mostly didactic historical romances. He put the historical novel to new use, not to teach history, but to illustrate some religious truth. Westward Ho! (1855), his best-known work, is a tale of the Spanish main in the days of Queen Elizabeth I. Hypatia: New Foes with Old Faces (1853) is the story of a pagan girl-philosopher who was torn to pieces by a Christian mob. The story is strongly anti-Roman Catholic.. Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful (1866) is a tale of a Saxon outlaw. The Water-Babies (1863), written for Kingsley's youngest child, "would be a tale for children were it not for the satire directed at the parents of the period," said Andrew Lang. Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851) reflect Kingsley's leadership in "muscular Christianity" and his dramatization of social issues.