Onward Toward Recife:

Cinnamon Traveler Insider's Guide is a new travel reference guide series dedicated to Heritage Tourism. This first volume explores the African Diaspora experience on Martha's Vineyard Island from both a historical and a contemporary perspective.

Practical travel information and historical perspectives alike are dispensed in chapters with fun and catchy titles. "...The Golden Rules for Spending Wisely and Having a Good Time" chapter offers the 411 on the journey to the island, where to stay, hostelling and on island transportation options.

"The Benjamins" chapter provides a local business directory that lists accommodations, retailers, restaurants etc., with important telephone numbers and websites, for your planning convenience.

For the explorer in you, there is a chapter that highlights 4 self guided adventures.  Highlights include Lighthouses and Weathervanes, as well as a Walking Tour of Oak Bluffs and a Day Voyage to Nantucket.  Yet another chapter completely dedicated to The Ocean, shares the low on beaching tips and sunset hideaways.

Finally, historical essays chronicle the African Diaspora presence on Martha's Vineyard Island, beginning in the 1700s.  Just as the contemporary experience is covered in detail, thorough discussions shed light on the interwoven multi national origins of the island's 'Community of Color'.

Sangeet Grace Lynis wrote the book based on her experience as a historical advocate, travel journalist and Managing Director of Cinnamon Traveler Heritage Trust.  In this book her love for Martha's Vineyard Island Shines through and through