San Andrés y Providencia. Una geografía histórica de las islas colombianas del Mar Caribe Occidental

The author tries hard to give to these islands and to many other coral reefs in the vicinity a most respectable past. However the writing of an established authority on a subject which fascinates him has not in this ease produced good reading material. The narrative gives the impression that the reader must know beforehand all about San Andrés and Providence. At times it becomes so choppy that one cannot be sure whether the author is talking about San Andrés, Providence, the Corn Islands, Roncadores, Belice, or any other coral reef in the Caribbean. Failure to match text with footnotes and the continuous use of the present tense make the commentary not only dogmatic but difficult to understand.