Cuba

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"For more than 40 years Cuba has been hard to embrace and impossible to let go. With its well-chosen words and photographs, this book shows why."
Tom M ii.i.f.r , author of Tnilin(j With the Enema: A Yankee Travels Throuijh Castro's Cuba
Cuba
From the 16lh century conquistadors lo the tourist of today, every visitor to Cuba soon learns that it's a place of surprises and contradictions. Other communist countries may be drab: Cuba explodes with color. Other Caribbean islands may doze amid memories of colonial rule; Cuba seethes with passion as it has for centuries, even as Castro's 40-year-old revolution falters. Other Latin Americans welcome Uncle Sam. but while Cubans embrace individual Americans—and crave the U.S. dollar—their government's stiff-necked political defiance has kept the U.S. at bay for four decades.
In this stunning portrait, David Alan Harvey captures the unique spirit of Cuba in more than 100 spectacular color photographs that evoke the island's many... Tovább

Fülszöveg

I Mi
"For more than 40 years Cuba has been hard to embrace and impossible to let go. With its well-chosen words and photographs, this book shows why."
Tom M ii.i.f.r , author of Tnilin(j With the Enema: A Yankee Travels Throuijh Castro's Cuba
Cuba
From the 16lh century conquistadors lo the tourist of today, every visitor to Cuba soon learns that it's a place of surprises and contradictions. Other communist countries may be drab: Cuba explodes with color. Other Caribbean islands may doze amid memories of colonial rule; Cuba seethes with passion as it has for centuries, even as Castro's 40-year-old revolution falters. Other Latin Americans welcome Uncle Sam. but while Cubans embrace individual Americans—and crave the U.S. dollar—their government's stiff-necked political defiance has kept the U.S. at bay for four decades.
In this stunning portrait, David Alan Harvey captures the unique spirit of Cuba in more than 100 spectacular color photographs that evoke the island's many moods, while Elizabeth Newhouse's absorbing text chronicles its turbulent history, reports on the lives and attitudes of Cubans today, and peers into the future to see what may be in store. It's a wonderful glimpse of a beautiful tropical land and a vivacious, resourceful people.
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Cuba
FASCINATING, PARADOXICAL Cuba has a long and colorful history. Discovered by Columbus in 1492, the Island was one of imperial Spain's first footholds in the New World and its last colony there. From the sack of Santiago by English freebooters in 1662 to Teddy Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill to Castro's revolution and the 1962 missile crisis, Cuba's turbulent past and difficult present belie its tropical beauty and the joyous, ebullient, resourceful people who spice its multiethnic melting pot.
David Alan Harvey's superb, richly evocative photographs celebrate the place itself and its extraordinary inhabitants: their vitality and humor, their ingenuity and courage, and above all their indefatigable spirit. Complementing Harvey's compelling images, Elizabeth Newhouse's insightful text presents an overview of Cuban history and, drawing on conversations with men and women from many walks of life, describes what it is like to live in Cuba now and looks at what might be expected for the future.
Shunned by the United States and impoverished since the Soviet Union cut it loose in 1991, Cuba is in the throes of a painful transition as it struggles to uphold a 40-year-old revolution that began with high hopes but seems now on the verge of failure. To survive their economic plight, the Cuban people must call on all the creativity and resourcefulness for which they are famous, especially in their never ending scramble for U.S. dollars. But in spite of their economic woes, they remain as welcoming and as winning as ever. This unforgettable portrait captures the uniquely Cuban spirit and the lovely, lush Caribbean landscape, which have seduced and delighted visitors for centuries. Vissza