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The Reader's Companion to Cuba

The Reader's Companion to Cuba

by Alan Ryan (Editor)

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 392 PAGES

An anthology of travel writing on Cuba, beginning with 19th century writers like Anthony Trollope, John Muir and Frederic Remington and continuing on with Anais Nin and Langston Hughes. It's full of surprising gems about baseball, the mob, rumba and revolution. Don't miss Frank Mankiewicz's jeep tour of Havana with Fidel at the wheel or Martha Gellhorn's trip through Oriente province. Editor Alan Ryan introduces each 10-20 page excerpt.  (CBA06, $29.95)


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