Caribbean peo­ple have long been writ­ten about by for­eign trav­el writ­ers. With their new book, Trav­els with a Hus­band, hus­band and wife team Pa­tri­cia Mo­hammed and Rex Dixon present read­ers with a dis­tinct­ly Trinida­di­an per­spec­tive on their trav­els around the world.

The book will be launched on No­vem­ber 29 at Soft Box Stu­dios Gallery, Al­cazar Street, St Clair, sup­port­ed by an ex­hi­bi­tion of Dixon's trav­el and re­la­tion­ship in­spired art­work. It is the first ma­jor col­lab­o­ra­tion of this na­ture for au­thors Mo­hammed and Dixon, who have shared a two decade long cre­ative part­ner­ship.

Trinidad-born au­thor Mo­hammed is a schol­ar and film­mak­er, cur­rent­ly serv­ing as Pro­fes­sor of Gen­der and Cul­tur­al Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies in Trinidad. Dixon, born in Lon­don, Eng­land, has lived in worked in the Caribbean since 1985, and is a glob­al­ly renowned artist.

A re­lease said Trav­els with a Hus­band fol­lows the jour­neys of Mo­hammed and Dixon through­out some of the most in­trigu­ing cor­ners of the world, in­clud­ing Aus­tralia, In­dia, Namib­ia, North­ern Ire­land, The Hague, and sev­er­al Caribbean is­lands in­clud­ing Trinidad and Ja­maica where they both have lived for var­i­ous pe­ri­ods.

In­fused with a com­pelling blend of hu­mour and poignan­cy, and pre­sent­ed in an en­ter­tain­ing mix of writ­ing styles, the book ex­plores the es­capades and tri­als of the cou­ple as they nav­i­gate new ter­ri­to­ries and ex­pe­ri­ences. Cu­rat­ing mem­o­ries of over two decades, Trav­els with a Hus­band re­flects the lighter side of trav­el and re­la­tion­ships, all writ­ten from a fa­mil­iar per­spec­tive which lo­cal read­ers will re­late to eas­i­ly.

Mo­hammed and Dixon's dis­tinc­tive styles, com­bin­ing the in­tel­lec­tu­al and artis­tic, meld through­out the book. Prose and verse are com­ple­ment­ed by Dixon's strik­ing and some­times quirky art­work. As much a trav­el­ogue as it is jour­ney of a re­la­tion­ship pre­sent­ed both vi­su­al­ly and through the writ­ten word, Trav­els with a Hus­band is set to ap­peal to a wide range of read­ers.

Mo­hammed not­ed the im­por­tance of re­turn­ing the for­eign gaze in such a book. "As Caribbean peo­ple, we large­ly ex­pe­ri­ence the world as con­sumers of oth­er cul­tures that have shaped our tastes" she stat­ed.

"With Trav­els with a Hus­band, we have a work which shows us the world through our own eyes. This work sig­nals a rad­i­cal pro­gres­sion in the im­por­tance we Caribbean peo­ple place on our­selves as world cit­i­zens."