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Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other materials evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground documents how the city of Havana evolved from Prohibition haven and rich man's playground to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five-hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero.
Deeply personal and affecting, Havana is the accessible...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend...
5) Cuba
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An illuminating and practical guide to Cuban culture and society. Whether you're there for business or pleasure, Macdonald and Maddicks help make your visit a memorable and enriching experience with information on the history, customs, business practices and taboos of our island neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Inside Havana is a photographic portrait of a city swept up in the flow of time. In the wake of a turbulent five-hundred-year history, Havana today is a shipwreck of splendor and decay ; a place where the passing decades have created a haunting landscape, both beautiful and serene. In rich, elegaic images, celebrated photographer Andrew Moore captures the substance of this mysterious place. The result of four years' work, the images not only document...
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The Reader's Companion to Cuba offers nearly two dozen captivating eye-witness "reports" from visitors to Cuba's shores, among them Anais Nin's introduction to the "Fairyland" of Havana, Langston Hughes's surprising rumba party, an excursion around town with Fidel behind the wheel, Tommy Lasorda's baseball interview with pistol presiding, and Thomas Merton's pilgrimage to Our Lady of Cobre - a trip "nine-tenths vacation and one-tenth pilgrimage."...
