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by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Cuba Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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by José Latour
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Major political, economic and social events in the Republic of Cuba in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.
by Erica Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Varadero, Cuba.
by Sergio Chejfec
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conference-he was invited following the publication of his most recent...
The Pirates of Panama
Or The Buccaneers of America, A True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Also titled "The Buccaneers of America", this thrilling text is the best genuinely first-hand account of piracy to exist. Alexandre Exquemelin was on board the flagship of Henry Morgan, one of the most notorious pirates ever to sail. Exquemelin bore witness to some of the most extraordinary...
by Sam Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Pirates are often glorified as nautical Robin Hoods, heroes of the seas - and some were great navigators, map makers, and discoverers. But they were also thieves and murderers. They were undoubtedly merciless, but their crimes took place in a cruel age when even children might be hanged for stealing...
HISTORY OF PIRATES – True Story of the Most Notorious Pirates
Charles Vane, Mary Read, Captain Avery, Captain Teach "Blackbeard", Captain Phillips, Captain John Rackam, Anne Bonny, Edward Low, Major Bonnet and many more
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The famous history that inspired so many adventure novels, movies and most recently Black Sails & Pirates of the Caribbean. Find out the truth behind the legend: Table of Contents: Of Captain Avery, And his Crew Of Captain Martel, And his Crew Of Captain Teach, alias Blackbeard Of Major Stede...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books about pirates:Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy The Madman and the Pirate- R.M. Ballantyne Blackbeard Or, The Pirate of Roanoke.- B. Barker The Pirates of Malabar- John Biddulph Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea- James O. Brayman...
War Against All Puerto Ricans
Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."
In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto...
The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership....
The Yankee Comandante
The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio...
by Olivia Cueva-Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Under Spanish, Mexican, and American flags, the Los Angeles harbor area has developed many industries and businesses that survived on Mexican labor, supporting families of Mexican origin for more than a century. Pioneering Mexican Americans have worked the railroads, fields, canneries, plants, refineries,...
by Eric G. Swedin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads...
Bering Sea Strong
How I Found Solid Ground on Open Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Full of unusual characters, mischief, camaraderie, and testosterone-fueled man gossip.
Bering Sea Strong is a tale of adventure and self-discovery. The story portrays a young woman on a solo journey, pushed to the edge of the earth and further from the weight of family—marked by divorce,...