Fortunately, the cultural heritage of the Virgin Islands in being preserved in works such as this work Soundings Over Cultural Shoals by esteemed Virgin Islands author/academician Gilbert A. Sprauve.

The reader is led through exciting, fascinating and above all natural variations of the life of Virgin Islanders, life often unobserved and misunderstood from the visitor's point of view. Virgin Islanders will appreciate this work all the more because it portrays life as it is, and is seldom displayed in literature.