Tour Jamaica

by Joan Williams, Chris Dalrymple (Editor), Shawn Grant (Illustrator)

Overview

Tour Jamaica is the most comprehensive travel guide ever written about the beautiful island of Jamaica and to make it even more useful, it also contains a dictionary explaining popular words and phrases commonly in the country, for although Jamaica is an English speaking country, the indigenous language is Patois and it bears no resemblance to English.

So while the entire world has heard of the fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt, the great musician Bob Marley, the ageless philosopher Marcus Garvey, Voice winner Tessanne Chin and the many other world famous Jamaicans, I dare say not too much is known about their homeland, Jamaica.

This is the void Tour Jamaica fills.

Tour Jamaica therefore gives visitors, interested persons and potential visitors to the beautiful island of Jamaica a comprehensive picture of what to expect and do in order to have a wonderful vacation or to just satisfy their curiosity.

Apart from introducing readers to its world famous attractions such as picturesque and challenging Dunns River falls, the mysterious Blue and John Crow Mountain range and the Cockpit Country which is full of biodiversity, we also tell you about the numerous white sands beaches, other beautiful waterfalls, the wildlife, food, drinks, crime, arts and craft, music festivals, sports, the wildlife the parishes etc.

In fact, after reading Tour Jamaica, even if you had not planned to, you will be inspired to book a ticket, come to Jamaica and have a wonderful time.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148318101
Publisher:	Joan Williams
Publication date:	01/22/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

I am a Jamaican who was educated in Canada, USA and Jamaica and hold a BSc in Economics.

My initial training was as a computer programmer but I decided very early that I preferred to work with humans and not machines. I then got involved in Public Relations and politics in Jamaica, then moved on to become a workshop/seminar planner throughout the English Speaking Caribbean.
It was my passion for writing that drove me to establish Yard Publications in 1991 launching the "Back A Yard " series which was an annual satirical review of Jamaican politics and I actually published six annuals before deciding to take life less seriously!

In 1993, because of my late son's interest in Dancehall music and being intrigued by the new language I heard emerging, I started research into the youthful lingo and shortly after, published the 1st Original Dancehall Dictionary, with cartoons and all, thus making it both educational and very comical. It became extremely popular and the 6th edition of that Dictionary was published in 2012 and it is this same 6th edition that is now an ebook.

In 1995 because of my love of the great outdoors and overwhelmed by Jamaica's unique beauty, I wrote the first "Tour Jamaica." The 4th edition is this ebook .

For the kids too I published; The Original Jamaican Colouring Book; Count and Colour; Draw and Colour: Colour and Learn; all highlighting Jamaican scenes.

I have also operated several businesses from a very successful Public Relations Company to a chain of Children's nurseries and finally a Real Estate brokerage but I always come back to my first love, Journalism and at one time or the other, have been a columnist in Jamaica for the Gleaner, Star, Jamaica Observer, Money Index, Daily News as well as the Miami based Caribbean Today and Amnesty International magazine. Because of my biting written commentaries, I was invited to do radio, first by the now defunct Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) where I did a political commentary in the afternoons, then for over a decade, I was the alternative host of the number one talk show, "Perkins on Line."

Although semi-retired, I am currently the Friday host of Justice, a call-in programme on Power 106 in Jamaica which is transmitted world.