Creole Studies in the Seychelles
In The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean, Patrick Leigh Fermor, one of the greatest travel writers in the 20th century, captured the charm of Grenada in the late 1940s with its scenery punctuated by cocoa trees. "...we were driving through plantations of nutmeg and cacao. The straight stems of the cacao trees and their large, pointed and almond-shaped leaves were gathered in woods and groves which were filled with an unreal and filtered light, an atmosphere re
