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Félix Varela y Morales (teólogo, sacerdote, investigador cubano). Hijo de un militar español. A los seis años vivió con su familia en La Florida. Allí cursó la primera enseñanza. En 1801 regresó a La Habana y entró en el Seminario de San Carlos y San Ambrosio. En 1806 obtuvo el título de...

Esta obra dramática relata un conflicto dinástico ambientado en Mauritania.

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Before Fidel Castro seized power, Cuba was an ebullient and chaotic society in a permanent state of turmoil, combining a raucous tropical nature with the evils of arbitrary and corrupt government. Yet this fascinating period in Cuban history has been largely forgotten or misrepresented, even though it...

In 1911, Chase journeyed 2,000 miles on horseback from Mexico to Oregon and intimately recorded his experiences along the way. In his journals, Chase poetically provides a glimpse of California’s towns and wilderness as they appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. J. Smeaton Chase...

John Muir, the father of conservation, found his calling in the California wilderness known as Yosemite. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning journalist, author, and frequent National Public Radio contributor Tony Perrottet, is the story of Muir and the national park he helped create.

In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun...

A Sky the Color of Chaos chronicles M.J.’s perilous childhood during the turbulent rise and fall of Haiti’s President-Priest — a time of nightly shootings, home invasions, robberies, and the burning of former regime members in neighborhood streets. Haiti’s rich culture and breathtaking beauty...

Our illustrated travel guide will help you to plan an exciting trip to San Juan in Puerto Rico. It’s the ideal location for a cultural or warm beach vacation holiday - we take you to Old San Juan, home to historic attractions, galleries and museums. El Condado, the upscale city beach neighborhood...

In Those Who Passed By**, veteran missionary Eleanor Turnbull** traces the story of Haiti’s development by what happens along the Kenscoff Road and those who travel its bumps and curves. Throughout her nearly 70 years working in development and rural medical care, Eleanor met countless men...

Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the legendary figure, revealing his lesser known side as a romantic wanderer, a philosopher and doting suitor and father. Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in Guatemala as members of the political-exile community. Later they were...

This inspiring history of the Cuban anarchist movement is also a history of the Cuban labor movement. It covers both from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present, and ends with an enlightening analysis of the failure of the Castro dictatorship.

Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives...

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought...