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Cuba (Country Guide)

Cuba (Country Guide)

Extensive Cuba Travel Guide Book from Lonely Planet.


HAVANA BEFORE CASTRO

Through vintage and contemporary photographs, brochures and artifacts evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro tells the story of the city that was the most popular exotic destination for the Americans during the 40 years between World War I and Castro’s Revolution.


Havana Nocturne

HAVANA NOCTURNE

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution (Hardcover)


The Old Man and The Sea

The Old Man and The Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella (just over 100 pages in length) by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream It is noteworthy in twentieth century fiction, reaffirming Hemingway’s worldwide literary prominence as well as being a significant factor in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954