This work exudes the artistry of master storytelling. Using the history of Belize (British Honduras) as a fascinating backdrop, from its discovery by shipwrecked pirates (who never left), through the 1798 Battle of St. Georges Caye, to the hurricanes that wrought death and destruction, to the British colonialists who ruled the people, to the Belize-Guatemala Dispute, and through the era of national awareness to Belize's independence and neocolonialism to today's generation, John Alexander Watler tells an extraordinary story of six ordinary people caught up in various aspects of life: tender...