Oasis Marigot in association with Amazon.com is offering books & music to prepare and enjoy your vacation in St. Lucia. Here are a few of our favorites. We've set up links to Amazon to make it easy for you to buy them.

Mini Rough Guide St. Lucia, Karl Luntta This is the ultimate pocket handbook to one of the Caribbean's most popular islands featuring every attraction, from the capital of Castries to the famous street parties at Gros Islet. Practical tips on diving in Soufriere's marine park, hiking through mountain rain forests and many other activities. Colour photos and maps showing every sight and recommendation.

Saint Lucia With 160 full-colour pages, this authoritative guide is the last word on St. Lucia. Experienced local writers reveal the hidden delights of the island known as the "Helen of the West Indies". Entertaining and informative features on the history, culture, architecture, music, beach life, flora and fauna give a vivid insight into the essence of this magical isle.

Fodor's 2000 Caribbean For a comprehensive look at the islands (including St. Lucia), there are few better guidebooks. It covers colonial forts and great houses, sugar mills, tropical gardens, pirates coves and caves, volcanoes, waterfalls, etc. The lavish, exhaustive guide to enjoying your island vacation.

Sailor's Guide to the Windward Islands, Chris Doyle For your coming private yacht charter with Oasis Marigot, this is the "must-have" cruising guide book. With plenty of pictures, it will show you exactly where we will anchor and what you can do ashore. It covers all the Windward Islands in great details, starting in the north with Martinique, St. Lucia and ending with Grenada. It is oriented for the sailor, but you will find it also useful for your inland visits.

Coral Reefs Caribbean and Florida, Eugene H. Kaplan With more than 500 species described and more than 400 illustrations, this guide provides quick and easy visual identification of fishes, mollusks, sponges, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and much more of the fauna found on the coral reefs of Saint Lucia.

Birds of the West Indies, James Bond Descriptions of more than 400 species of birds found in the islands of the West Indies include local names of birds, notes on migrants and winter residents - as well as birds that breed there - and voice, habitat, and range information. More than 340 illustrations aid in identification.

The Bounty, Derek Walcott St. Lucia is a small island, but it has already two Nobel laureates. Poet Derek Walcott is the most famous one and the central park in the Capital is named after him. In The Bounty, Walcott takes the 1787 arrival of that ill-fated British ship on Caribbean shores as the starting point for a mediation on life, art, and identity. This book contains a haunting series of poems evoking the poet's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. The power and beauty of Walcott's lyric have never been more fully in evidence.

Caribbean, James A. Michener Author James A. Michener called Marigot Bay "the most beautiful bay in the Caribbean", and he certainly has a way with words we won't argue with. We pay him a tribute here and recommend his excellent book for your vacation in St. Lucia. Caribbean is a wonderful epic which spans over centuries detailing the marvelous history of our region. All the passion and power of the Caribbean are captured in magnificent Michener style.

Caribbean Party (music CD) Close your eyes and think of St. Lucia. Even if you've never been there, some images will probably be conjured by your imagination: Hot sun, blue sea, languid beaches, spicy food, green jungle...and music. Caribbean music has some of the most uplifting and irresistible sounds in the world.