Read about the latest violence in Guyana, the horrifying Lusignan massacre, and what one source called 'the imminent collapse of law and order" in one of the countries featured in Bastard Tongues www.guyana.org "After all, we gave you Jonestown!" www.crimelibrary.com If all that's too depressing, try a virtual visit to a real tropical paradise also featured in the book... www.seychelles.travel ...or this one, wouldabeen home of the Island Experiment: www.janeresture.com Unless you prefer the C.I.A. version: www.cia.gov Try another of my favorite destinations: www.zamboanga.com Click on "jokes" (in the green sidebar) for a surreal experience Or do some easy do-it-yourself research by comparing the vocabularies of two Creole languages—Sranan and Saramaccan—that most people think sprang from a single language just 300 years ago (vocabulary differences suggest the earliest possible date would have been over 1,000 years ago, when the great-great-great...great grandparents of those languages' first speakers were living happily in Africa!) Beat the experts! www.sil.org/americas/suriname/Saramaccan www.sil.org/americas/suriname/Sranan