Trinidad: its geography, natural resources, administration, present condition, and prospects

By L. A. A. De Verteuil

Before postcards and pipelines, Trinidad was being measured, mapped, and argued over in plain, observant prose. L. A. A. De Verteuil captures the island at a turning point, when landscape, labour, and policy were being reshaped with lasting consequences. Maps, markets, rivers, and rule. Part historical geography survey and part colonial administration report, this clear-eyed account ranges from physical features and settlement patterns to trade, infrastructure, and public life. Readers looking for Trinidad natural resources will find a grounded portrait of soils, forests, and minerals alongside practical attention to Trinidad agriculture and industry. As a caribbean economic history book, it also traces the pressures and possibilities of the nineteenth-century British West Indies: how governance, migration, and commerce converged, and what that meant for colonial governance and society on the ground. Valued today as both Victorian travel writing and a working west indies gazetteer, De Verteuils volume remains a sharp caribbean history reference guide for anyone interested in 19th century Trinidad and the wider imperial Atlantic. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for todays and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collectors item and a cultural treasure. Whether you read for place, for history, or for the texture of a vanished administrative world, this public domain reprint belongs on the shelf of the curious reader and the classic-literature collector alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353705495
• ISBN13: 9789353705497
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"