This is the first comprehensive book about a strategically placed island which is unique in having only very recently achieved prominence after its sparse population had enjoyed a quiet, untrammelled existence for hundreds of years. Grand Bahama is the most northerly of the chain of islands that almost form a land bridge between Florida and Venezuela. It is already the second most important island of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and has become a tourist playground. At the nearest point it is only sixty miles from Florida....