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St. Michael Barbados: Black Bird Studios, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. ANN WATSON YATES Ann Watson Yates was born and spent her youth in Barbados. Her family on both sides (Watson and Gooding) settled on the island almost 400 years ago. She was educated at Codrington High School, and gained distinctions in Fine Art from the Royal Drawing Society in London. She worked for many years with the stamp dealers Stanley Gibbons as an investment adviser in their rare stamp department in London. It was during this time, that in addition to stamps, she started to collect maps, prints, engravings, post cards and photographs of Barbados. Her pictures and ideas form the nucleus of this book. Having lived in Barbados, she subsequently moved to Guyana, Puerto Rico, Australia, Paris, London and Washington DC, where she lived in these countries for several years. She has travelled in Latin America, the USA, Europe and the Far East. She has also visited Africa on numerous occasions, in particular Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Burundi and Ruanda. She now divides her time between Barbados and the United Kingdom.