The Traveller's Tree A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

Originally published: London: John Murray, 1950.

Patrick Leigh Fermor's books in the NYRB Classics series include A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, Mani, Roumeli, and A Time to Keep Silence. His letters to Deborah Devonshire appear in In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Charlotte Mosley, recently published by New York Review Books. Patrick Leigh Fermor was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order and the Order of the British Empire, and in 2004 was knighted for his services to literature and to British-Greek relations.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral student in geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian (U.K.), and The Believer, among other publications.