West category: 3403 books
Yankee Come Home
On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the intense, complex, smoldering relationship between the island nation and its leviathan neighbor.
In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscape, William Craig is searching for a history that his family has lost-and now...
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
A Chronological History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements...
Creole Indigeneity
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous...
Scottish Highlands, Caribbean Islands and more
Travels in 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This book includes stories about travelling in the Western Caribbean, visiting Grand Cayman, Jamaica, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and The Bahamas. Other stories are about the Scottish Highlands including visits to Inverness, Ullapool, Plockton, and the area called Assynt.
John Muir's Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated)
Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "John Muir's Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents....
American Road
A Motor Cycle Journey Across Southwest USA in Words and Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
I did not see the film, "Easy Rider", until it was shown on British TV in 1996. However, the idea of riding a motorcycle across the USA had always appealed to me. In the early 1980s my sister, Philippa and her husband, Mike, were living in the USA, in Arizona, so I saved up my pounds and pences, and...
by C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Originally published in 1950, this analysis by three respected activists successfully predicted the future course of Marxism. Their revolutionary critique of industrial civilization possessed a striking originality that was insular in its political context and optimistic in its expectations for the...
Freedom Papers
An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family’s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War.
ESCRITOS SOBRE LA ARENA
(WRITINGS ON THE SAND)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Escritos sobre la Arena recoge las memorias del autor de su familia en una época de gran agitación en la Historia de Cuba. Después de la renuncia del Presidente Batista, su padre, que era Jefe de la Policía Nacional en Santiago de Cuba, actuó como intermediario para ayudar a establecer comunicación...
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Marcus Clarke, James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
This volume contains several critical views of colonialism from a variety of perspectives in many widely separated parts of the world: Africa, the Americas, India, and Australia.
The Crime of the Congo, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, describes what is clearly the worst case of abuse during the...
by Thomas Atwood, G. A. Henty, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
This volume provides what its title suggests, important historical and general information on the Caribbean island commonly known as Hispaniola and the two countries that coexist there: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The five complete works included herein are:
“The History of the Island...
by Timothy Black
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the...
by Dave Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Aruba, the Caribbean island 15 miles north of Venezuela and an autonomous dependency of the Netherlands. This flat, riverless island is renowned for its white sand beaches. Its tropical climate is moderated by constant trade winds from the Atlantic...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Aruba Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected.
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