A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. Hughes's first novel, it...
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A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film, based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Richard Hughes, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick...
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A High Wind in Jamaica may refer to: A High Wind in Jamaica (novel), a 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica (film), a 1965 film based on the novel This disambiguation...
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Andalusian allegorical novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan developed the idea through its noble savage titular protagonist understanding natural theology in a tabula rasa existence...
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Jamaica (/dʒəˈmeɪkə/ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square...
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is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories. Set in London, the United States and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan...
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Richard Hughes (British writer) (section Novels)
The Innocent Voyage (1929), or A High Wind in Jamaica, as Hughes renamed it soon after its initial publication. Set in the 19th century, it explores the...
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adaptations A High Wind in Jamaica, Eye of the Needle and Firestarter, and the sword-and-sorcery film Conan the Destroyer. He was married to Florence Wood in the...
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champagne. It was first described by Richard Hughes in his 1929 novel, A High Wind in Jamaica. According to Hughes: "Hangman's blood... is compounded of rum...
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Pickaninny (redirect from Pick a ninny)
English-based. In Jamaican Patois, the word is found as pickney, which is used to describe a child regardless of racial origin. The same word is used in Antiguan...
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after Hughes's previous novel, In Hazard: A Sea Story, and 33 years after A High Wind in Jamaica, which was a best seller in the United Kingdom and America...
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Jean D'Costa (category People from Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica)
January 1937) is a Jamaican children's novelist, linguist, and professor emeritus. Her novels have been praised for their use of both Jamaican Creole and Standard...
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Negril (redirect from Negril, Jamaica)
Negril is a small, widely dispersed beach resort and town located in Westmoreland and Hanover parishes at the far western part of Jamaica, 80.8 kilometres...
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January 2024) was a Trinidad-born, British-based writer who resided in London, England. She was the author of five novels: Butterfly in the Wind (1990), Sastra...
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children as protagonists is also inspired by the book and the film A High Wind in Jamaica, while the relationship between Raisuli and Eden is based on the...
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Roger Mais (category All Wikipedia articles written in Jamaican English)
21 June 1955) was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in Kingston, Jamaica. By 1951, he had won...
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Ronald Harwood (category Alumni of Sea Point High School)
(1962) The Barber of Stamford Hill (1962) A High Wind in Jamaica (1965, based on the novel A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes) Drop Dead Darling (1966...
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Lover's Leap (category Places located in Cumberland, MD-WV-PA)
that her lover was alive and well. The south coast of Jamaica at Saint Elizabeth Parish has a Lovers' Leap 1,700 feet (520 m) above the Caribbean Sea...
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Pirate Latitudes (category Novels set in Jamaica)
pirates in the seventeenth century.". In 1981, Crichton said he was working on a pirate story, and he mentioned a research trip to Jamaica in 1982 in his...
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Lord of the Flies (redirect from Lord of the Flies (novel))
Simpsons with a similar plot Heart of Darkness (1899), short novel by Joseph Conrad Humankind: A Hopeful History A High Wind in Jamaica Island mentality...
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Eighteen on October 22 south of Kingston, Jamaica. It moved slowly at first due to a ridge to the north. Low wind shear and warm waters allowed for strengthening...
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Frank Silvera (category Male actors from Kingston, Jamaica)
actors, in 1965. At the time of his death he had a recurring role in the NBC Western series The High Chaparral. Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the...
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Canada (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
experience a continental climate, where daily average temperatures are near −15 °C (5 °F), but can drop below −40 °C (−40 °F) with severe wind chills. In non-coastal...
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(March 31, 2023). "A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA - NBC UNIVERSITY RADIO THEATER!!!!!". YouTube. Palmer, Zuma (January 11, 1951). "Value in Radio Forums Though...
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Wuthering Heights (category Novels set in Yorkshire)
in the narrative. In her 2019 novel, The West Indian, Valerie Browne Lester imagines an origin story for Heathcliff in 1760s Jamaica. K-Ming Chang's 2021...
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James Coburn (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
tracker in Major Dundee (1965), directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston. At Fox, he was second-billed in the pirate film A High Wind in Jamaica...
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Bob Marley (category All Wikipedia articles written in Jamaican English)
of Jamaican music worldwide and made him a global figure in popular culture. He became known as a Rastafarian icon, and he infused his music with a sense...
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Birds of Paradise 1987 1990 11123 Polar Seas 1987 1990 11123 Tribes of Jamaica 1987 1990 11123 Iraq of Holy Shrines 1987 1990 11123 Burundi’s Great Lakes...
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Barbara Blake Hannah (category Jamaican expatriates in the United Kingdom)
arrived in Britain in 1964 to work as an extra on the film A High Wind in Jamaica (1965). In the next few years she wrote for The Caribbean Times, West...
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Carolyn Hennesy (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Retrieved February 3, 2016. "Carolyn Hennesy Filming 'The Swing of Things' in Jamaica". soaps.sheknows.com. Retrieved March 10, 2019. "Carolyn Hennesy (visual...
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