Written by Ashley B. Saunders, an outstanding Bahamian author, poet, and authority on the Bahamas, the History of Bimini, Volume 1 is a comprehensive study of the people of the Biminis – the westernmost group of islands in the Bahamas – and the only collection of history books to be written about a Bahamian island by a native of the Bahamas to date. This volume vividly captures the complexities and achievements of the Bahamian culture.
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The Biminis' seclusion and proximity to the United States mainland, along with the Gulf Stream, island legend and history point to a great deal of wheeling and dealing and dangerous activity along its shores and on nearby cays, at the tip of the 40-mile Bimini island chain.​
 
The author first describes the land, the people and the pre-history of the area, and then considers each aspect of the history: the Lost City of Atlantis, Lucayan Indians, Explorers, Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth, slave traders, pirates, ship wreckers, gun runners, cotton traders, spongers, rum runners, drug and alien smugglers, adventurers and big game fisherman, and such notable characters as writer Ernest Hemingway, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., philanthropist Mike Lerner and exiled Harlem congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.