On the occasion of the Babel Festival of Literature and Translation of Bellinzona (11–14 September 2014), Humboldt Books presented Primi Dispatches dai Caraibi by Matteo Campagnoli and Stefano Graziani, a preview of Dispatches dai Caraibi. The Caribbean is the stage on which the fates of the great colonial empires were played out and the world we know today first saw the light: a melting pot of races, cultures and languages that have been hybridised, mingled and reinvented. On this journey through the islands of St. Lucia, Trinidad and Martinique, Matteo Campagnoli and Stefano Graziani come across not only glistening stretches of sand and coconut palms, but also blue devils, British admirals and Creole taxi drivers, oil drums as musical instruments and plantations turned into princely resorts.