Out from Nassau - Softcover

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Fia Scheyer is the author of numerous monographs, curricula, studies, poetry, short stories and books. This is her first full length novel. Her study of Bahamian Women, Mothers and Daughters, was one of the first studies focusing on the history and status of women in the Bahamas. She is a member of the Association of Caribbean Historians and, although an American, has studied the culture and people of the Bahamas for over twenty five years, having lived there and visited on numerous occassions. She remarked about her passion in writing this novel: There have been literally millions of visitors to the Bahamas who know little or nothing about the place and the people they are visiting. They are missing a lot! There is more to the Bahamas than water, beaches, warm weather, night life, gaming, and the straw market. There is a colorful history, wonderful art and drama, historical museums and society, great food, festivals and boat races in the Bahamian style, tradition filled communities and architecture, if one but seeks them out. I hope this novel brings the reader a better understanding of what this place, its history, and its people are about.