Travelers' Tales of Old Cuba
- ISBN13:
9780980429213
- ISBN10:
0980429218
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 2010-06-01
- Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Summary
Few places are as fascinating as Cuba, which has drawn travelers ever since it was "discovered" by Columbus in 1492. Magnificently evoking the romance and drama as well as darker episodes of slavery and tyranny, this selection of journal entries, essays and guidebook commentaries begins in the days when Havana sheltered Caribbean pirate treasure ships and was the gateway to the Spanish empire in the New World.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. vii |
| The Invasion of Puerto del Principe, 1678 | p. 1 |
| The Aborigines of Cuba; A Slave Ship; Marti the Smuggler circa 1854 | p. 9 |
| A Letter from Cuba, 1834 | p. 32 |
| A Letter from Havana, 1849 | p. 36 |
| Havana, 1859 | p. 45 |
| Impressions of Cuba, 1859 | p. 64 |
| Havana, 1868 | p. 79 |
| An Enchanted Painter; A Taste of Cuban Prison Life, 1873 | p. 92 |
| A Skirmish with The "Gringos," 1896 | p. 112 |
| Cuban Home Life, 1910 | p. 117 |
| From The Early Diary, 1922 | p. 130 |
| Terry's Guide to Cuba, 1929 | p. 134 |
| Cuban Color Lines, 1930 | p. 143 |
| Treasure Island, 1931 | p. 149 |
| Aboard the "Pilar" with Hemingway, 1934 | p. 154 |
| Afro-Cuban Religious Beliefs, 1946 | p. 162 |
| Havana Carnival, 1949 | p. 167 |
| In Havana with The Mafia, 1958 | p. 176 |
| Notes on the Authors | p. 189 |
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