Th. Dufau

Little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable online sources consulted here. Public-domain library records consistently list the name as Th. Dufau and connect it with Een Reis naar het Land van de Cacao en de Suiker (1908), a Dutch edition translated from French.

From the book's own catalog and summary material, Dufau appears as a French-language writer or observer commissioned in October 1901 by the agricultural chambers of Guadeloupe to study economic and industrial conditions in Barbados, British Guiana, and Trinidad. The resulting work combines travel writing with a practical look at sugar production, cacao cultivation, plantation life, and the wider pressures facing Caribbean colonies at the time.

Because so few firm personal details were available, the safest introduction is through the book itself: a concise, historically interesting account of agriculture, commerce, and colonial society in the Caribbean at the start of the 20th century.