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At the Foot of the Southern Cross
Dick Gentry
其他書名
An American Editor Offshore in the Cayman Islands
出版EBooks-UK, 2010
主題Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, PublishersBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Latin America / Mexico
ISBN19066020859781906602086
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5FnQRwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Memoir of an American Editor offshore in the The Cayman Islands; part compelling reminiscence, part historical account, this is an important contribution to the history of the Caymans in the twentieth century. Dick Gentry is an outspoken journalist with 50 years of writing and editing experiences. Much of his success in journalism is his skill in telling stories that readers love. This is rightly called a memoir, although it reads more like a novel. It is also an anthology of history, frustration, money and adventure in a foreign country. Naive Mr. Gentry was unprepared for the reception he received in The Cayman Islands' only newspaper. In the beginning, Dick did not know what he was doing. He was battered like a pebble in an empty Coke bottle bouncing against the Iron Shore. But he never sank, and this remarkable book documents his dealings with the local Caymanians and the British Administration - his triumphs and pitfalls as Editor of The Caymanian Weekly at a pivotal moment in the Caymans' transition from sleepy Caribbean islands to international tax haven.