The book traces the history of The Bahamas from early Lucayan times to the present day when the Bahama Islands have achieved full nationhood and are renowned as a major tourist centre. An outline of the geographical factors which have been so influential in Bahamian affairs adds to our understanding of its history. The essential theme of the book is the struggle of the Bahamian people for survival against almost overwhelming odds. Particularly vivid and exciting are the author's accounts of piracy and wrecking.

The Story Of The Bahamas

A History Of The Bahamas

This novel of adventure and conflict explores the nature of class and identity in the post-colonial world of the Bahamas. The narrative, rich in imagery, reveals the inner lives of the characters and implicates us all in one man's struggle to do the right thing.

Thine Is The Kingdom

400 feet deep, in the treacherous waters of green turtle cay, lies the world's most dangerous cargo...waiting for the world's most daring diver. 
Salvage diver Tiller Galloway vowed he would never work for "The Baptist" again. Until the menacing kingpin makes him an offer he can't refuse, sending him deep into the beautiful blue Caribbean to raise fifty tons of cargo-- a dive to the razor's edge of death. Caught in the cross fire of a crazed underboss and hostile islanders, Tiller takes on a nightmare of double crosses, as a scenario more sinister than he ever imagined begins to unfold. 
From the author of "Down to a Sunless Sea" comes this shattering sequel to "Hatteras Blue," a tale as explosive as those of Clive Cussler and Peter Benchley, and packed with some of the most breathless undersea scenes ever written.


Bahamas Blue (Tiller Galloway, #2)

While the Thea Sisters are on a tropical vacation in the Bahamas, they stumble upon an old pirate map! It's related to a local legend. Could it lead to treasure?! The five mice venture onto the sparkling Caribbean Sea to follow the map... but someone else is trying to find the treasure first. It's a dazzling adventure!

Thea Stilton and the Tropical Treasure (Thea Stilton #22)

Journey to the Ragged Islands: Sailing Solo Through The Bahamas

Runnin' Sheep: A Collection of Short Stories about Life in Long Island, Bahamas, 1900-1950

From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. "Islanders in the Stream" is not only the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it is also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in similar circumstances.Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Covering the islands’ initial settlement, the second section ranges from the initial European incursions and the first English settlements through the lawless era of pirate misrule to Britain’s official takeover and development of the colony in the eighteenth century. The third, and largest, section offers a full analysis of Bahamian slave society through the great influx of Empire Loyalists and their slaves at the end of the American Revolution to the purported achievement of full freedom for the slaves in 1838.

This work is both a pioneering social history and a richly illustrated narrative modifying previous Eurocentric interpretations of the islands’ early history. Written to appeal to Bahamians as well as all those interested in Caribbean history, "Islanders in the Stream" looks at the islands and their people in their fullest contexts, constituting not just the most thorough view of Bahamian history to date but a major contribution to Caribbean historiography.

Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People: Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery

"A significant contribution to the history of the Caribbean and to the comparative study of slavery and transitions to free labor systems."--O. Nigel Bolland, Colgate University

"An extended and comprehensive history of the Bahamas. . . . Shifts the focus of interest from the islands’ elites to the common people . . . with special reference to the black population which has hitherto been largely ignored in historical writing."--Richard B. Sheridan, University of Kansas, Lawrence

In the only scholarly treatment of Bahamian socioeconomic history in the post-emancipation years, Howard Johnson begins by examining the last phase of slavery as one element in the foundation of later, and often more exploitative, labor systems. Looking at both urban and rural slave populations, Johnson discusses the systems of slave hire, apprenticeship, and indenture and highlights the ways in which the people of the Bahamas often exerted more autonomy and power as slaves than as a "free" people.
Following emancipation in 1838, an export economy based on cotton, salt, sponges, and pineapples spawned coercive credit and truck systems, which bolstered the dominance of a white mercantile elite that would exercise control until the early 1960s. Various government policies further perpetuated a "machinery of class slavery," making migration (primarily to Key West and, later, to Miami) one of the few escape routes available to the lower classes.
Throughout, Johnson relates historical developments in the Bahamas to those in neighboring Caribbean islands, Latin America, and the United States, making this an important sourcebook for all Caribbeanists. It will also be of interest to scholars of the historiography of slavery in the Americas and the transition from slavery to freedom or--in a post-emancipation system of domination like that of the Bahamas--from slavery to servitude.

Howard Johnson is associate professor in the Department of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware, editor of "After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society" (1988), and author of "The Bahamas in Slavery and Freedom "(1991).

The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933

The Natural History of The Bahamas: A Field Guide

The ultimate guide to ALL of Eleuthera, Bahamas 135 beaches. The book is complete with maps, detailed directions, stunning photos, and important tid-bits of information that can only be obtained by someone who has been there, seen that, and told all. Some who have never been to Eleuthera, or to the Bahamas, may wonder why they need such a guide. Picture a charming tropical island, but one without signs, clear landmarks, and many well-paved roads. Most of the beaches are accessible, but only if you know how to get there. The roads are often nothing more than rough pock laden trails cut through dense jungle brush. Planning your trip is important so that you understand the conditions and travel times. Even the more well known beaches can be tricky to find. And, with 135 choices, you want to choose the best. Why, then, would anyone go to so much trouble to find one of these hidden beaches? Because often at the end of your journey is pure majesty. Having miles of pristine sand and ocean completely to yourself with unique geographic formations, exquisite snorkeling, and extreme privacy is well worth the effort. Learn from us so that you can plan, arrive safely, and enjoy the splendor that is an Eleuthera beach.

The Beach Book, Eleuthera, Bahamas Edition: The Ultimate Guide to All of Eleuthera's 135 Beaches

Two years in a Florida federal prison on bogus charges has made former Miami Dophins linebacker, Zack Chasteen, stir crazy. The first step toward getting his life back together is meeting up with his beautiful magazine mogul girlfriend, Barbara, on Harbor Island in the Bahamas. But making it out of Florida proves to be more trouble than a gator with a toothache--and even deadlier. Zack barely leaves the state alive before he discovers Barbara's been kidnapped and her ex-lover, a photographer, murdered. 

Once again trouble has come knocking on Zack's door. But this time he's fighting back, with the help of a Royal Bahamanian police superintendent, his trusted mystical Taino Indian friend Boggy, and a cast of the most colorful characters ever to step into the warm Bahama sun.

As unpredictable as island trade winds, "Bahamarama" twists and turns its way to a stunning conclusion and announces the arrival of a writer who is sure to surprise and delight mystery fans for years to come.
 

"Bahamarama "is a 2005 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.

Bahamarama

This sprawling, lusty novel spans nearly a century and a half, recreating a fabulous era of romance, violence and high adventure. It is the saga of the Camerons, an impetuous Tory family, who fled South after the American Revolution to rebuild their baronial plantations in the turbulent, wind-swept Bahamas.

Wind from the Carolinas

“Deftly unravels the complex historical interrelationships of race, color, class, economics, and environment in the Colonial Bahamas. An invaluable study for scholars who conduct comparative research on the British Caribbean.”—Rosalyn Howard, author of" Black Seminoles in the Bahamas"
  
 “Saunders is to be commended for a scholarly study that prominently features the non-white majority in the Bahamas—a group which usually has been overlooked.”—Whittington B. Johnson, author of "Post-Emancipation Race Relations in The Bahamas "
  
 In this one-of-a-kind study of race and class in the Bahamas, Gail Saunders shows how racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across other British West Indian colonies but instead mirrored the inflexible color line of the United States. Proximity to the U.S. and geographic isolation from other British colonies created a uniquely Bahamian interaction among racial groups. Focusing on the post-emancipation period from the 1880s to the 1960s, Saunders considers the entrenched, though extra-legal, segregation prevalent in most spheres of life that lasted well into the 1950s.

 Saunders traces early black nationalist and pan-Africanism movements, as well as the influence of Garveyism and Prohibition during World War I. She examines the economic depression of the 1930s and the subsequent boom in the tourism industry, which boosted the economy but worsened racial tensions: proponents of integration predicted disaster if white tourists ceased traveling to the islands. Despite some upward mobility of mixed-race and black Bahamians, the economy continued to be dominated by the white elite, and trade unions and labor-based parties came late to the Bahamas. Secondary education, al­though limited to those who could afford it, was the route to a better life for nonwhite Bahamians and led to mixed-race and black persons studying in professional fields, which ultimately brought about a rising political consciousness. Training her lens on the nature of relationships among the various racial and social groups in the Bahamas, Saunders tells the story of how discrimination persisted until at last squarely chal­lenged by the majority of Bahamians.
  

Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960

As vacationing Ben Candidi and Rebecca Levis sail through International Waters toward Grand Bahama Island, they receive a strange welcome?a sinking cabin cruiser with a dead man at the helm. Ben knows how to patch bullet holes below the waterline and Rebecca knows how to estimate time of death. And they agree that the West End marina is the right place to bring the body. To avoid trouble, they play it dumb and treat the cocaine-smuggling marina tenants as the divers and sport fishermen they are pretending to be. Unfortunately, the mailbox corporation in Miami that owns the yacht ignores Ben's $100,000 salvage claim?and the Bahamian police won't let him move the yacht to Florida. The harder Ben and Rebecca press their claim, the more sinister West End becomes. Should they cut their losses and run? Or is it too late already?

Bahamas West End Is Murder

This is the first full-length ethnography of a unique community within the African diaspora. Rosalyn Howard traces the history of the isolated Red Bays community of the Bahamas, from their escape from the plantations of the American South through their utilization of social memory in the construction of new identity and community. Some of the many African slaves escaping from southern plantations traveled to Florida and joined the Seminole Indians, intermarried, and came to call themselves Black Seminoles. In 1821, pursued and harassed by European Americans through the First Seminole War, approximately 200 members of this group fled to Andros Island, where they remained essentially isolated for nearly 150 years. Drawing on archival and secondary sources in the United States and the Bahamas as well as interviews with members of the present-day Black Seminole community on Andros Island, Howard reconstructs the story of the Red Bays people. She chronicles their struggles as they adapt to a new environment and forge a new identity in this insular community and analyzes the former slaves' relationship with their Native American companions. Black Seminoles in contemporary Red Bays numb

Black Seminoles in the Bahamas

The Windsors I Knew: An American Private Secretary's Memoir of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Nassau, Bahamas 1940-1944

The pressure’s rising in this short tale of deep danger…

It’s two tanks of trouble when Eugene Law and his wife Porter’s bioluminescent night dive takes a detour into the dark and hungry abyss. 

Lionfish, scrimshaw, and the clawing desperation of an alien Magick await our hero on the lightless bottom. 

Will Gene and Porter make it out alive, or will they be lost beneath the Bahama Blues?

Bahama Blues (Tales of Weird Florida)

The result of seven years’ research in English, Italian, Greek documents and contacts. First-hand accounts including film by Italians of actual attack and sinking showing lifeboats, etc.. Greek and Italian perspectives as well as those of local Bahamians on San Salvador, the Greek community and officials in Nassau, as well as officials en-route to NY and beyond. The author recently traveled to Greece and is in touch with families of several survivors. 
In a little-known theater of war where 130 Allied ships were sunk by 112 German and Italian submarines, almost all of them in the spring of 1942, the loss of the Greek-owned steam ship Cygnet to the Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli is remarkable on many levels. For one, no one was killed, or even seriously injured, and in fact the Italians and Greeks both saluted and joked with one another during and after the attack. Considering that 5,844 Allied sailors were attacked in the Bahamas area, and that 1,239 of them were killed, this is remarkable. Also Cygnet was the only ship in the Bahamas or Turks &amp; Caicos whose sinking was so close to land – San Salvador was less than six miles away – that local Bahamians witnessed the daytime assault and the district commissioner sent out an SOS to government forces calling for a counter-attack. 
 Cygnet was only the second Allied ship sunk in the Bahamas during the war, the only Greek-owned vessel (the owners still maintain close shipping ties to the Bahamas), and the first dispatched by an Italian submarine. The O. A. Knudsen of Norway was caught between Abaco and Eleuthera two days before, and the British steamers Daytonian and Athelqueen were sunk in that area by the Tazzoli several days later. All of the other ships sunk in the Bahamas left dead sailors behind, either trapped on the ships, buried at sea, lost on the reefs, or buried ashore. A fortunate 257 of them made it to the welcome safety of Nassau and into the waiting arms of the Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson and her Red Cross volunteers. 
The loss of the Cygnet gave the men on both sides of the steel vessels involved plenty to photograph and film, talk and write about, and remember. There is a certain irony in the Cygnet skipper’s letter of protest, filed in Nassau, when men on both sides admit that interactions between Italians and Greek were jocular and relaxed. Interestingly, it was the Greek, and not the Italian sailors, who lived to tell the tale. Within a year the Tazzoli, too, was at the sea floor, her commander dead by his own hand, his legacy only resurrected, with an Italian submarine named after him, long after the war.

Swan Sinks: SS Cygnet Sunk by Italian Submarine Enrico Tazzoli San Salvador Bahamas in World War II (U-Boats in the Bahamas Book 2)

On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have--and what England and other foreign countries wanted--was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers.

Boats worked their way back and forth from the Confederacy to Nassau and England, and everyone from scoundrels to naval officers wanted a piece of the action. Poor men became rich in a single transaction, and dances and drinking--from the posh Royal Victoria hotel to the boarding houses lining the harbor--were the order of the day. British, United States, and Confederate sailors intermingled in the streets, eyeing each other warily as boats snuck in and out of Nassau. But it was all to come crashing down as the blockade finally tightened and the final Confederate ports were captured.

The story of this great carnival has been mentioned in a variety of sources but never examined in detail. Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War focuses on the political dynamics and tensions that existed between the United States Consular Service, the governor of the Bahamas, and the representatives of the southern and English firms making a large profit off the blockade. Filled with intrigue, drama, and colorful characters, this is an important Civil War story that has not yet been told.

Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas During the Civil War

Netty's Junkanoo Christmas is a story about a girl growing up in the islands of The Bahamas. Children of the Bahamas celebrate the Christmas Holidays different from most children around the world. Netty's favorite tradition is a yearly street parade called Junkanoo, where participants wear colorful costumes, and dance to the hypnotic sounds of goat skin drums, brass instruments, whistles and cowbells.

Netty's Junkanoo Christmas: A Story of a Girl Growing Up in the Bahamas, and Her Love for a Street Parade Called Junkanoo.

“The Bahamas are famous for sun, sand—and swimming pigs.” —"National Geographic"

In the middle of paradise, with billionaires and celebrities for neighbors, is an island populated only by swimming pigs. For decades, this archipelago of 365 islands would remain largely unknown to the world. It would not be a ruthless pirate, pioneering loyalists, a notorious drug kingpin, or the infamous Fyre Festival that would unveil Exuma to the world, but rather the most unlikely of creatures.

Appearing in magazines, videos, newspapers, commercials, TV shows, and countless selfies, the Swimming Pigs of Exuma, in the Bahamas, have become a bucket-list sensation and have been named one of the marvels of the universe.

But how did they reach this celebrity status? What made them so famous? And why, in February 2017, did so many of them die?

"Pigs of Paradise" is an unlikely story of humble beginnings and a swift rise to stardom. With interviews from historians, world-renowned ecologists, famous pig owners, and boat captains, it thoughtfully considers what this phenomenon says about not only these animals but also about us.

Bahamas

The Story Of The Bahamas

Paul Albury

A History Of The Bahamas

Michael Craton

Thine Is The Kingdom

Garth Buckner

Bahamas Blue (Tiller Galloway, #2)

David Poyer

Thea Stilton and the Tropical Treasure (Thea Stilton #22)

Thea Stilton

Journey to the Ragged Islands: Sailing Solo Through The Bahamas

Paul Trammell

Runnin' Sheep: A Collection of Short Stories about Life in Long Island, Bahamas, 1900-1950

Cindy Armbrister

Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People: Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery

Michael Craton

The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933

Howard Johnson

The Natural History of The Bahamas: A Field Guide

Dave Currie

The Beach Book, Eleuthera, Bahamas Edition: The Ultimate Guide to All of Eleuthera's 135 Beaches

Bret Sigillo

Bahamarama

Bob Morris

Wind from the Carolinas

Robert Wilder

Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960

Gail Saunders

Bahamas West End Is Murder

Dirk Wyle

Black Seminoles in the Bahamas

Rosalyn Howard

The Windsors I Knew: An American Private Secretary's Memoir of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Nassau, Bahamas 1940-1944

Jean D. Hardcastle-Taylor

Bahama Blues (Tales of Weird Florida)

Martin Shannon

Swan Sinks: SS Cygnet Sunk by Italian Submarine Enrico Tazzoli San Salvador Bahamas in World War II (U-Boats in the Bahamas Book 2)

Eric Wiberg

Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas During the Civil War

Charles D. Ross

Netty's Junkanoo Christmas: A Story of a Girl Growing Up in the Bahamas, and Her Love for a Street Parade Called Junkanoo.

Lynette M Hepburn-Sinclair

Pigs of Paradise: The Story of the World-Famous Swimming Pigs

T.R. Todd