Praise for James A. Michener
“A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, frontier and settlement, money and power … James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work.… He manages to make history vivid.”

—The Boston Globe, on Texas

“Fascinating … a wonderful rampage through history.”

—The New York Times, on The Source

“Alaska takes the reader on a journey through one of the bleakest, richest, most foreboding, and highly inviting territories in our Republic, if not the world.… The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.… Colorful, informative, and historically accurate.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review, on Alaska

“[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast paranormal … wonderful.”

—Baltimore Sun, on Hawaii

“The severity, the vastness and the poetry of a faraway land … a slam-bang success.”

—New York Herald Tribune, on Caravans

“Michener’s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.”

—The Philadelphia Inquirer, on Chesapeake

Caribbean is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

2014 Dial Press Trade Paperbacks Edition

Copyright © 1989 by James A. Michener
Excerpt from Hawaii copyright © 1959 and copyright renewed 1987 by James A. Michener
Cartography copyright © 1989 by Jean Paul Tremblay
Illustrations copyright © 1989 by Franca Nucci Haynes
Introduction copyright © 2014 by Steve Berry

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

DIAL PRESS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, in 1989.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION ÐATA
Michener, James A. (James Albert)
Caribbean / James A. Michener
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8129-7492-8
eBook ISBN 978-0-8041-5153-5
I. Caribbean Area—History—Fiction. I. Title
PS3525:119C38 1989 813.?54-dc20 89-42785

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