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| Author: | Ann Louise Bardach |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 124643 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that...
| Author: | Stephen Smith |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 142421 |
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Stephen Smith ponders the paradox that is Cuba. His aim is an interview with Fidel Castro, but the path to this is a long and meandering one. After settling into a small flat in Havana he sets out to...
The Island that Dared - Journeys in Cuba
| Author: | Dervla Murphy |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 171000 |
| Availability: | Not available |
Award-winning travel writer Dervla Murphy’s journey into the heart of Cuba in The Island that Dared is a three-generation adventure into one of the Caribbean’s most fascinating islands. Accompanied...
| Author: | Richard Gott |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Catalogue number: | 135407 |
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“Cuba: A New History” is a compelling and insightful read, shining new light on forgotten corners of Cuba’s history, not only those surrounding a certain cigar-chomping leader; events in Fidel Castro...
| Publisher: | Latin America Bureau |
| Catalogue number: | 74982 |
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Cuba is in crisis. After 35 years of one-party rule, the island stands on the brink of dramatic change. Its economy destroyed by the collapse of the eastern bloc, its people suffering increasing hardship...
| Author: | Fidel Castro |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 166890 |
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Officially culled from a series of revealing interviews with Ignacio Ramonet, “My Life” is Fidel Castro's biography 'in his own words'.
Such a book was always going to be a book widely read, an opportunity...
| Author: | Ernest Hemingway |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 76811 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Ernest Hemingway's magnificent fable The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. Here, is a perfectly crafted story...
Lonely Planet Travel Literature
| Relevant titles: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
The Travel Literature series from Lonely Planet draws upon the publisher’s unrivalled experience of travel publishing for over 30 years, exploring the local culture of a range of international destinations...
| Author: | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Catalogue number: | 168573 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara is the definitive, authorized version of Che's manifesto on revolution, including his final revisions, completed just before his death. It is both an incisive...
The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics
| Author: | Aviva Chomsky |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Catalogue number: | 119298 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock email, weborders@stanfords.co.uk |
For students, travellers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, “The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics” is an invaluable introduction...
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| Author: | Pedro Juan Gutiérrez |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 134061 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascinated by his predicament. Working...
| Author: | Leonardo Padura |
| Publisher: | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Catalogue number: | 149931 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock email, weborders@stanfords.co.uk |
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Havana Red is the first of Leonardo Padura’s awesome Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde; making Padura a Caribbean Ellroy if you will. And like the best of Ellroy...
| Author: | Graham Greene |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 135349 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
One of Graham Greene’s most popular books, Our Man in Havana has all the usual trademarks of a Greene novel (foreign locale, one man, a higher power and the perversion thereof), except instead of being...
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Simon Calder is one of the UK’s most well-known travellers, having edited The Independent Traveller for 13 years and presented several BBC travel shows. Known as 'the man who pays his way', Simon's travels have taken him from Crawley to Mount Kenya, and always in the 'cheap seat'...
Read moreOn the outskirts of the sleepy little beach town of Baracoa, in semi-tropical eastern Cuba, there is a chocolate factory. The local delicacy, somewhat bizarrely called Peter's, is produced there - as all the guidebooks will inform you. What most of them don't say is that this factory was inaugurated by none other than 'El Che' himself...
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