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GRANTLEY ADAMS AND THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION - THE STORY OF THE MOVEMENT THAT CHANGED THE PATTERN OF WEST INDIAN SOCIETY

GRANTLEY ADAMS AND THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION - THE STORY OF THE MOVEMENT THAT CHANGED THE PATTERN OF WEST INDIAN SOCIETY

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First published in 1974, the biography of the first and only premier of the Federation of the West Indies, who was a former pupil of the famous Harrison College, Barbados and a student at St Catherine's, Oxford, for whom he played cricket in the early 1920s and always remained a keen lover of the game.

8vo. 280pp. Paperback. Some discolouration to fly-leaves otherwise very good condition. 

Date
1988
Publisher
Macmillan Caribbean
Author
F.A. HOYOS

£24.00 (Code: 81386)

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