Caribbean category: 2932 books
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook
Delicious Meals Made With Whole, Organic Ingredients from the Marley Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Ziggy is the best-known and most successful of Bob Marley's children.
The approximately 50 recipes included in the book are from Ziggy, Bob Marley, Rita Marley, Karen Marley, Orly Marley, as well as celebrity chefs Bruce Sherman, Ben Ford, and Douglas Rodriguez.
The book will be full-color,...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial...
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial...
Cubano Be, Cubano Bop
One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage...
Desert Memories
Desert Memories
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert...
Negro Soy Yo
Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways...
by William J. Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
A 30 page book of the History, Legends, and Step-by-Step instructions for touring this 460+ year old Spanish Colonial city. The legends are authentic, and have been handed down generation after generation.The booklet has lots of historic and full color pictures, and is suitable for saving as a souvenier.
by William J. Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
A 30 page book of the History, and Step-by-Step instructions for touring this 460+ year old Spanish Colonial city. The booklet has lots of historic and full color pictures, and is suitable for saving as a souvenier.
The Pirate King
The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A compelling account of history's most famous pirate.
The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. The inspiration for dozens of fictionalized pirates in film, television, and literature-as...
The Unconquered
In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding...
Aya Awakenings
A Shamanic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of "spiritual tourists," rogue scientists, black magicians,...
Why You No Scream Viva?! My Big Mexican Adventure that Taught Me How to Live, Love, and Laugh Again.
Why You No Scream Viva?! My Big Mexican Adventure that Taught Me How to Live, Love, and Laugh Again.
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
There is life after a broken heart-but you have to go out and find it! When you're in the middle of a break-up, the last thing you probably feel is strong, capable, and able to move on with your life. Why You No Scream Viva?! chronicles the sometimes hilarious adventures Brooke Martellaro experiences....
by Luther Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
The author overhears a conversation about an island called Margarita. Images of the mythical land of Margaritaville fill his head. This sets in motion a chain of events that leads him on a misadventure with his seven year-old daughter in search of that fabled land. They take off from...
Santiago's Children
What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little...