Caribbean category: 2932 books
Cuba and Its Music
From the First Drums to the Mambo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising,...
Wildman of Rhythm
The Life and Music of Benny Moré
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Benny More (1919-1963) was one of the giants at the center of the golden age of Cuban music. Arguably the greatest singer ever to come from the island, his name is still spoken with reverence and nostalgia by Cubans and Cuban exiles alike.
Unable to read music, he nevertheless wrote more than...
Rhythms of Race
Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America,...
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...
Rainy Season
Haiti-Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake.
Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past,...
by Zaji Girl
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This is the Rio travel guide for the global girl - a fun, flirty and stylish travel guide and journal whisking you on an adventure around this city.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Belo Horizonte : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Belo Horizonte : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Belo Horizonte : (Brazil) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
by Nadine Hays Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The Escape Manual is your guide for moving to, living in, or traveling through Costa Rica.
In this perfect blend of information and entertainment, Nadine Hays Pisani answers all of your questions in her patented comedic style.
She introduces you to her colorful cast of characters as...
The Footloose American
Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America
In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National...
A Visit to Don Otavio
A Mexican Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In the mid-1940s, Sybille Bedford set off from Grand Central Station for Mexico, accompanied by her friend E., a hamper of food and drink (Virginia ham, cherries, watercress, a flute of bread, Portuguese rosé), books, a writing board, and paper. Her resulting travelogue captures the violent beauty...
The End of the Rainy Season
Discovering My Family's Hidden Past in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father’s claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she...
by Susan J Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Real virgins say, "Yes!" (In Mexico, they say "Sí!") With that answer, Susan Cobb commits to remodeling a house on the coast of Mexico-and refurbishing her life along with it. Virgin Territory will transport you to the rural lushness of Mexico's Pacific Coast, a region bursting...
by Theresa Zollicoffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Traveling to a spanish speaking country or would you just like to learn the basics of spanish. This is a little pocket book for your basic spanish translation needs from greetings, hotel accommodations to the weather and seasons. This trusty handbook also have worksheets and lessons so that you won't...
by Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything...