Download or read book Havana Uncovered written by Vernon A Pearce and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havana, the capital city of Cuba, is a destination like no other. With its rich history, vibrant culture, and stunning architecture, Havana is a must-visit for any traveler looking for a unique and unforgettable experience. In "Havana Uncovered: A Comprehensive Travel Guide to Cuba's Vibrant Capital City," readers will be taken on a journey through the heart of Havana, exploring everything from its historic landmarks and museums to its lively nightlife scene and world-renowned cuisine. This guidebook offers practical advice on how to get to Havana and where to stay, as well as information on the best ways to get around the city. It provides detailed recommendations on where to eat, shop, and explore, with insights into local customs and traditions. Readers will discover the top attractions in Havana, including the iconic Malecon, the colorful streets of Old Havana, and the lively music and dance performances that are synonymous with Cuban culture. They will also learn about lesser-known gems, such as hidden beaches, local markets, and off-the-beaten-path neighborhoods. With very good insider tips, "Havana Uncovered" is the ultimate guidebook for anyone planning a trip to this incredible city. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned traveler, this comprehensive guide will help you make the most of your time in Havana and uncover its many treasures.
Download or read book Cuba Uncovered Or Havana is Closer to Peoria Than I Thought written by Bill Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Havana written by Juliet Barclay and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its historic forts to its lushly tropical courtyards, from the city squares to the statues and fountains, take a captivating tour through the city of Havana. Magnificent color photographs capture the well-known spots and uncover the quiet corners; vintage black-and-white images showcase the important explorers who changed the course of Cuba's development, as well as landmarks of the past. A fascinating history traces life in Havana from the early 16th century to its heyday in the 19th . Information for the traveler guides the would-be tourist to this newly "in" holiday destination, made popular by the mainstream success of films and music, including the Buena Vista Social Club. It's a lovely tribute to the most extravagantly beautiful city in the Caribbean.
Download or read book Havana written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. 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 of cultures. Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it is today--from the native Taino to Columbus's landing, from Cuba's status as a U.S. protectorate to Batista's dictatorship and Castro's revolution, from Soviet presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since long before the revolution. Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentier and José Martí, and foreigners, including Graham Greene and Hemingway. He introduces us to Cuban baseball and its highly opinionated fans; the city's music scene, alive with the rhythm of Son; its culinary legacy. Through Mark Kurlansky's multilayered and electrifying portrait, the long-elusive city of Havana comes stirringly to life.
Download or read book Leaving Havana written by Conchita Hernandez Hicks and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba was a playground for the wealthy in the 1950s. It was a place to bask in the sun during the day, and enjoy many fine nightclubs, restaurants, theaters, and casinos after the sun went down. Many wealthy Americans traveled to Cuba for both business and pleasure. In January of 1959, everything changed. I was a little girl in Cuba at that time. I was living a life of luxury with practically anything that my little heart desired. My family had a chauffeur and homes in the city, in the country, and at the beach. I had my own nanny. I had parents and grandparents that loved me and lived close by so that I could see them almost every day. I was truly living a fairy-tale existence. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, my world came crashing down around me. Fidel Castro took over Cuba and made devastating changes to the country - and to the lives of those who lived there. The fairy tale quickly came to an end. Many difficult decisions had to be made by my parents and by many others. The world that we knew no longer existed. We had to leave loved ones and property behind. We had to move forward to a new life in a different country, with different customs, and a different language - and there was no turning back.
Download or read book The History of Havana written by Dick Cluster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city, and the first to be co-authored by a Cuban and an American. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, Cluster and Hernández explore the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies. The authors bring together conflicting images of a city that melds cultures and influences to create an identity that is distinctly Cuban.
Download or read book The Havana Archive written by Basil Hyman and published by Booth-Clibborn. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havana: Once the playground of the rich and famous, where Cuban rum flowed in legendary nightclubs, luxury hotels, and casinos, and celebrities danced the mambo till dawn--as well as a vital hub for drug running and money laundering. This fascinating book, drawn from an archive of press photographs and ephemera thought to have been the property of Capone-era Chicago gangster and bookie Grover Dullard, captures the essence of Havana from the 1920s through the '50s with a wealth of evocative detail. Photographer Basil Hyman discovered this trove of Cuban treasures in Paris, and it led him on a voyage of discovery to Havana's rich past. His book's unique visual approach builds a picture of glamour and decadence in a mixture of photographs and memorabilia--postcards, menus, cocktail napkins, matchbooks, and much more; some reproduced as removable facsimiles. This book will transport the reader back to a long-lost world.
Download or read book Havana Before Castro written by Peter Moruzzi and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip to the golden age of Havana in this gorgeously illustrated volume of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other ephemera. Featuring hundreds of historic images and cultural artifacts, Havana Before Castro documents how the Cuban capital evolved from a Prohibition Era getaway destination 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 a legendary city during its heyday—before the Castro regime took over and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise. In chapters covering such topics as Cuban rum and cigars, the world-famous Tropicana Club, and Havana’s association with the mob, author Peter Moruzzi provides essential historical context for the many fascinating and evocative images.
Download or read book Seven Days in Havana written by Frank Dominguez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of fate, hope, destiny, and self- realizations, uncovered while spending time in Cuba. I never envisioned that I would be drawn into something so deep, contrived and infinitely larger than I could ever have imagined. Here in Havana, at the Corner of Sanja y Soledad, I was staring at what felt like another crossroad. A place that might define the here and now, or a future yet to unfold. I wondered, why now? My diluted ideals or expectations of love, had been so off track. The love, I was made to witness was beautiful. It wasn't demanding, contrived, or measured. What I saw, was shared; giving, warm, and tender. It was unspoken yet loud, it was offered freely and reciprocated selflessly. More than anything it was clothed in innocence, and a purity of want. It was meant to last, and felt eternal! I never thought of love being electrifying, or becoming a contagious manifestation, that could weaken the strongest of souls. Yet, it was also one of those times in my life; where or when, I was made to realize or question, the true strength or ironclad conviction of knowledge. If or when, one is afraid to wisely wield truth from its scabbard, and talk as men. Where individual opinions and convictions, are affected or controlled, not by state, political association, but by self-imposed perception, and fear. I learned the appalling truth of the Embargo and felt ill at what I had uncovered; it's effects on a most kind but resourceful people, I had never paid much attention to the meaning of the word Embargo, I don't think anyone ever did. But, I would soon understand that what we were fed, and the true definition contained within the parameters of its composition, was meaningless, nothingness. How could it be? If we couldn't understand or grasp the true consequences of the action. If we couldn't see or feel the full weight, brought to bear and or associated with that word. What happened to the innocent; to men, women, wives, mothers, children, the poor and afflicted was, and is still unforgiveable.
Download or read book Havana Real written by Yoani Sánchez and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoani Sanchez is an unusual dissident. She produces an intelligent diary about what it really means to live under the Castro regime in Cuba today: the difficulty of shopping and chronic hunger, the art of repairing ancient appliances, the struggles for real news and the burdens of reading a single-party newspaper. Through sensitive dispatches, Sanchez draws a vivid picture with brutal honesty. Her simple act of truth-telling, as published on her award-winning blog, GenerationY, is collected here for the first time in English.
Download or read book The 500 Hidden Secrets of Havana written by Magalie Raman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Houses of Havana written by Hermes Mallea and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Houses of Havana celebrates one hundred years of creativity, design, and style that made the city "the Paris of the Caribbean." For four hundred years, Havana was the center of Spanish trade in the western hemisphere. With the expansion of the sugar industry, independence from Spain, and North American investment, Havana became a city of great wealth, great style, and great houses in a vocabulary that was a unique amalgam of European, American, and Caribbean elements. Great Houses of Havana traces the evolution of the Cuban home from the classic, Spanish colonial courtyard house to the “Tropical Modernist” villas of the 1950s—houses reflecting international architecture trends while remaining true to the Cuban tradition. Cuba’s social history is woven throughout the book. Vintage photographs illustrate Havana’s sophisticated lifestyle—the masked balls, yacht club picnics, and dynastic weddings of fashionable Cubans and their international guests. Popular cafes, hotels, theaters, and weekend resorts are also featured, creating a view of the privileged life inside the gated mansions of the city’s grandest neighborhoods.
Download or read book Havana Nocturne written by T. J. English and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution & international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana & the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution. As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 50s, Mob leaders Meyer Lansky & Charles "Lucky" Luciano turned their eye to Havana. To them, Cuba was the ultimate dream, the greatest hope for the future of the US Mob in the post-Prohibition years of intensified government crackdowns. But when it came time to make their move, it was Lansky, the brilliant Jewish mobster, who reigned supreme. Having cultivated strong ties with the Cuban government & in particular the brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista, Lansky brought key mobsters to Havana to put his ambitious business plans in motion. Before long, the Mob, with Batista's corrupt government in its pocket, owned the biggest luxury hotels & casinos in Havana, launching an unprecedented tourism boom complete with the most lavish entertainment, the world's biggest celebrities, the most beautiful women & gambling galore. But their dreams collided with those of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara & others who would lead the country's disenfranchised to overthrow their corrupt government & its foreign partners—an epic cultural battle that English captures in all its sexy, decadent, ugly glory. Bringing together long-buried historical information with English's own research in Havana—including interviews with the era's key survivors—Havana Nocturne takes readers back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders. English deftly weaves together the parallel stories of the Havana Mob—featuring notorious criminals such as Santo Trafficante Jr & Albert Anastasia—& Castro's 26th of July Movement in a riveting, up-close look at how the Mob nearly attained its biggest dream in Havana—& how Fidel Castro trumped it all with the revolution.
Download or read book Back Channel to Cuba written by William M. LeoGrande and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh here present a remarkably new and relevant account, describing how, despite the intense political clamor surrounding efforts to improve relations with Havana, negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. They reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, that provides the historical foundation for the dramatic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba ties.
Download or read book Seven Days in Havana written by Frank Dominguez and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of fate, hope, destiny, and self- realizations, uncovered while spending time in Cuba. I never envisioned that I would be drawn into something so deep, contrived and infinitely larger than I could ever have imagined.Here in Havana, at the Corner of Sanja y Soledad, I was staring at what felt like another crossroad. A place that might define the here and now, or a future yet to unfold. I wondered, why now?My diluted ideals or expectations of love, had been so off track. The love, I was made to witness was beautiful. It wasn't demanding, contrived, or measured. What I saw, was shared; giving, warm, and tender. It was unspoken yet loud, it was offered freely and reciprocated selflessly. More than anything it was clothed in innocence, and a purity of want. It was meant to last, and felt eternal! I never thought of love being electrifying, or becoming a contagious manifestation, that could weaken the strongest of souls. Yet, it was also one of those times in my life; where or when, I was made to realize or question, the true strength or ironclad conviction of knowledge. If or when, one is afraid to wisely wield truth from its scabbard, and talk as men. Where individual opinions and convictions, are affected or controlled, not by state, political association, but by self-imposed perception, and fear.I learned the appalling truth of the Embargo and felt ill at what I had uncovered; it's effects on a most kind but resourceful people,I had never paid much attention to the meaning of the word Embargo, I don't think anyone ever did. But, I would soon understand that what we were fed, and the true definition contained within the parameters of its composition, was meaningless, nothingness. How could it be? If we couldn't understand or grasp the true consequences of the action. If we couldn't see or feel the full weight, brought to bear and or associated with that word.What happened to the innocent; to men, women, wives, mothers, children, the poor and afflicted was, and is still unforgiveable.
Download or read book Cuba written by Louis A. Pérez and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology--between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality--is fully investigated as a source of both national tension and competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice. Author Louis A. Pérez, Jr., integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give students a full and fascinating account of Cuba's history, focusing on its struggle for nationality.
Download or read book Havana Noir written by Achy Obejas and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] superb collection . . . The 18 stories by current and former residents of Havana are gritty, heartbreaking and capture the city.” —Orlando Sentinel To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical sin city. Habaneros know that this is neither new nor particularly true. In the real Havana—the lawless Havana that never appears in the postcards or tourist guides—the concept of sin has been banished by the urgency of need. And need—aching and hungry—inevitably turns the human heart darker, feral, and criminal. In this Havana, crime, though officially vanquished by revolutionary decree, is both wistfully quotidian and personally vicious. In the stories of Havana Noir, current and former residents of the city—some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others exciting new voices like Yohamna Depestre—uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria. Other authors include: Pablo Medina, Alex Abella, Arturo Arango, Lea Aschkenas, Moisés Asís, Arnaldo Correa, Mabel Cuesta, Michel Encinosa Fú, Mylene Fernández Pintado, Carolina García-Aguilera, Miguel Mejides, Achy Obejas, Oscar F. Ortíz, Ena Lucía Portela, Mariela Varona Roque, and Yoss. “[A] remarkable collection . . . gritty tales of deprivation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.” —The Miami Herald
