William C. Found, The Making of the Caribbean Landscape: Images from a Changing Island World. Toronto, Dalvorem International, 2025. x plus 355 pages; 597 original photographs and maps.

This book represents the culmination of over 60 years of research and photography in the Caribbean by the author, William C. Found, University Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Urban and Environmental Change; and Fellow, Centre for Research in Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, Toronto, Canada. It is the first book to analyse landscapes of the entire insular Caribbean from prehistoric times to the present, brilliantly illustrating changes in natural and cultural features with almost 600 original photographs and maps, all produced by the author.

The research was undertaken in collaboration with several Caribbean organizations and hundreds of friends and colleagues throughout the region. The author moved to Jamaica in 1964 for Ph.D. research, followed by six decades of field study in almost every major island in the archipelago. Prominent among the local collaborators have been the University of the West Indies (Mona and Cave Hill campuses), the University of Puerto Rico (San Juan and Mayagüez campuses), and the Institute of Ecology and Systematics of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

The author is indebted to the many students involved with his learning and research, particularly those with Caribbean ancestry. He is also very grateful for support from academic colleagues at York, McMaster, Toronto, Florida, Harvard and Umeå Universities; and from several institutions that provided funding for field study. David Barker (1947-2022) of the Mona Campus and Karl Watson (1944-2025) of the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies were invaluable collaborators in the research. The book is dedicated to their memory.