A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, on such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation.
Presents an introduction to Jamaica from the perspective of Travis, a nine-year-old boy who lives in the village of Green Island, covering weather, home, food, school, work, religion, and other topics.
When Neville sees the hermit crabs which he so gently collected being mistreated by the crab man at a Jamaican hotel, he no longer wants to supply them but would thereby forfeit his income.
Explores the people, history, culture, land, climate, and economy of Jamaica, one of the group of West Indies islands discovered and named by Christopher Columbus in 1494.