SALVATORI:
Un Corsu à Trinidad
This book tells the incredible life story of Joseph Salvatori.
Joseph Salvatori in full regalia.
Joseph's story is intimately pieced together from surviving oral histories, and from research unearthed at archives nestled in London, Paris, Corsica, the United States, and Trinidad and Tobago.
It chronicles his crossing from Corsica to the Americas in the late 1800s with no more than 35 francs to his name, the building of a vast business empire that included the largest department store in the Caribbean, and a life of such consequence that Charles de Gaulle went on to acknowledge him in his memoirs.
John Newel Lewis’ artistic representation of a key moment in Joseph Salvatori’s life
