jamaica

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jamaica

Anansi

1991
Two Jamaican folk tales in which Anansi the spider practices his trickery on others. Includes an audio cassette featuring narration and music.

Bob Marley, my son

2003
Cedella Marley Booker, brought up in the poor rural district of Nine Miles in Jamaica, met Captain Marley, a white man forty years her senior when she was just sixteen. Their child was Bob Marley, who would introduce the world to reggae and transform the course of popular music with his classic songs. His mother shares her stories of life with her son. Cedella Marley Booker was also an established performer and composer. She died in 2008.

Cup of gold

a life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with occasional reference to history ...
1976
Devoured by lust and greed, Morgan still had two ambitions: to possess the mysterious woman known as La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama.

Bob Marley

The Untold Story
2009

No woman, no cry

my life with Bob Marlely
2004
Rita Marley shares the story of her life, discussing her childhood in Trench Town, a slum in Kingston, Jamaica, and focusing on her marriage to reggae star Bob Marley, and her own singing career.

Mancrow's feather

a story from Jamaica
1996
Mancrow, a powerful half-bird, half-man creature, steals all the colors of the world when he becomes angry with Solidae, a young girl who yelled at him for taking away Iguana's color, but Solidae forms a plan to get the colors back.

Bob Marley

spirit dancer
1994
A visual record of reggae musician Bob Marley, accompanied by text tracing his life from his youth in Jamaica to his death at age 36.

Patrick Ewing

1998
Describes the life and career highlights of the popular basketball player for the New York Knicks.

Tell my horse

voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica
2009
The author provides an account of her experiences as an initiate of voodoo in Haiti and Jamaica during the 1930s.

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