Xaymaca - Land of Wood and Water

Before the plantations. Before the slave ships. Before the British flag flew over Kingston Harbour. There was Xaymaca —'Land of Wood and Water' — and the Taíno people who had called it home for over a thousand years.This is where the story of Jamaica truly begins. Volume 1 of A Multi-Volume History of Jamaica takes the reader back tothe island's indigenous roots: the Taíno civilisation that built ...