The Best-Kept Secret In The Caribbean, Or, Thrills And Romance In The Leewards And Windwards

The Best-Kept Secret in the Caribbean, or, Thrills and Romance in the Leewards and WindwardsThe Secret, of course, is that they are wonderful in the summertime. And empty. And cheap. That is because a Grand Old Travel Myth-- the one that goes, Only mad dogs and schoolteachers voluntarily aim for the tropics in summer--continues to live on. Subthemes are that the islands, so close to the equator, must be 140 in the shade in July; and, when you're melting in an oven called Chicago, why pay to fly...