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Kingston Travel Guide
Travel Guide Summary
Kingston has been the capital of Jamaica since 1692, when an earthquake devastated the previous capital of Port Royal. It has one of the world’s largest natural harbours, and is home to the University of the West Indies.
Jamaica was under British rule until 1962 and as a consequence some of...
Revision date: June 2010
Location
| Country | Jamaica |
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| Area | Caribbean - East |
| Region | Caribbean |
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Included in this guide:
- Factual and Background
- What's to See
- Shopping
- History & Economy
- Art & Culture
- Recreation & Sport
- Getting Around
- Eating Out
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Check out our specially-selected reading for Kingston:
| Title | A High Wind in Jamaica |
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| Author | Richard Hughes |
| Title | One People |
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| Author | Guy Kennaway |
| Title | Journal of a West India Proprietor |
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| Author | Matthew Lewis |
| Title | Jamaica Me Dead |
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| Author | Bob Morris |
| Title | The Jamaica Triangle: Grass, Guns, Greed and a Wicked Combination |
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| Author | Donald James Black |
| Title | Doctor No |
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| Author | Ian Fleming |
| Title | The Story of the Jamaican People |
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| Author | Philip Sherlock, Hazel Bennett |
| Title | Port Royal: The Sunken City |
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| Author | Robert F Marx |
| Title | Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World |
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| Author | Trevor Burnard |
| Title | Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805 |
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| Author | Philip Wright |
| Title | Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari |
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| Author | Velma Pollard |
| Title | Bob Marley: Talking |
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| Author | Ian McCann |
| Title | Young, Gifted and Black: The Story of Trojan Records |
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| Author | Michael de Koningh |
| Title | Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica |
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| Author | Norman Stolzoff |
| Title | Beach Babylon |
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| Author | Imogen Edwards-Jones |
