Tony Tames New Book "The Village Curtain" Released by Savant Books and Publications
Summary
Meet a village elder who practices a highly evolved system of ensuring guidance and protection, disillusioned providers of charity, sometime drug smugglers and a man who thinks the best way to harvest the ocean is to throw explosives into it."The Village Curtain examines a specific segment of West Indian, and in particular Jamaican societys use of culturally unique survival techniques and the private atmosphere which tends to be produced within small Caribbean fishing communities.Meet a village elder who practices a highly evolved system of ensuring guidance and protection, disillusioned providers of charity, sometime drug smugglers and a man who thinks the best way to harvest the ocean is to throw explosives into it.Tame, born in Kingston, Jamaica has been associated with the marine industry since the mid 1960’s."The Village Curtain examines a specific segment of West Indian, and in particular Jamaican societys use of culturally unique survival techniques and the private atmosphere which tends to be produced within small Caribbean fishing communities.I hope readers will enjoy experiencing the sharp contrast between appearance and reality in what seems so picturesque and idyllic a place as the West Indies where the outcome of the best charitable, official and bureaucratic efforts is always uncertain at best.