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On Guadeloupe, A Fine Blending Of Contrasts
dc.contributor.author | Compa, Lance A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-17T17:27:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-17T17:27:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1986-11-16 | |
dc.identifier.other | 1787831 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/75902 | |
dc.description.abstract | [Excerpt] Contrasts like that mark the French island in the Lesser Antilles chain. Grande-Terre is flat, hot and bright. Its long, straight beaches are a natural extension of low-lying terrain, full of light green sugarcane fields and grassy marsh. Basse-Terre is a forest green, made somber as the sun rotates the shadows of its high central mountains past the villages below. Only the narrow belt highway around Basse-Terre separates its curving beaches from steep foothills. At every turn in the road, a tiny stream carries the runoff from the mountains, where there are waterfalls and deep pools and springs. Here, instead of the high, classic rainbows of Grande-Terre, the coincidence of sun and rain makes for a thick, stunted rainbow seemingly imbedded in a hillside, like a pre-Columbian slab worshiped by an ancient tribe. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.rights | Required Publisher Statement: Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | travel | |
dc.subject | Guadeloupe | |
dc.subject | resorts | |
dc.subject | Caribbean | |
dc.subject | vacations | |
dc.title | On Guadeloupe, A Fine Blending Of Contrasts | |
dc.type | unassigned | |
dc.description.legacydownloads | Compa149_On_Guadeloupe.pdf: 193 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020. | |
local.authorAffiliation | Compa, Lance A.: lac24@cornell.edu Cornell University |