Reader's Companion to Cuba

Name: Reader's Companion to Cuba
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ISBN: 9780156003674

ISBN-10: 0156003678

ISBN-13: 9780156003674

Edition: 1997

Authors: Alan Ryan, Alan Ryan

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A gathering of some of the best travel writing ever about the most intriguing hot spot in the Caribbean, this book includes work by Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Thomas Merton, Anais N•n, Frederic Remington, James Michener, Tommy Lasorda, and others. The Reader’s Companion to Cuba offers an infinitely more revealing and personal time-lapse “tour” of this complex country than could possibly be offered by any standard guidebook. Map.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Alan Ryan, the former warden of New College, Oxford, has taught political theory at Oxford and Princeton since 1969. His books include "The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill", "Bertrand Russell: A Political Life", "John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism", and "Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education".



Introduction


Havana, 1859



Havana, 1859



Havana, 1868



Havana, 1899



Havana, 1922



Havana nights and Cuban color lines, 1930



Havana, 1934: Summer with El Hemingway



Havana and beyond, 1940: Blinded by the Light



Havana, late 1940s: Carnival



Havana and the Finca Vigia, 1957: Visiting Hemingway and one-fourth of James Bond



Havana and Santiago de Cuba, 1957



Havana, 1958: Out on the town with the mob



Havana, 1950-1959: Baseball, Batista, and the Bearded Ones



Train to Oriente, July 26, 1960: A la Sierra con Fidel!



Havana, 1974: Around town with Fidel



Havana, 1977: Welcome, tourists!



Train Number One: Havana to Santiago and Guantanamo Bay, 1980s



Havana and the Finca Vigia, 1985



Santiago and beyond, 1987



At the beach, Santa Maria and Varadero, 1987



Havana, 1990s: The babalawo and the birds



Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus, and the Bay of Pigs, 1990



Holguin, Santiago, Havana, and the beach, 1987-1992