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Havana : a subtropical delirium /

"Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throu...

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Main Author: Kurlansky, Mark, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Subjects and Genres:
Kurlansky, Mark.
Americans > Cuba > Havana > Biography.
Voyages and travels > Essays & Travelogues.
Voyages and travels > Caribbean & West Indies.
15.85 history of America.
TRAVEL > Essays & Travelogues.
TRAVEL > Caribbean & West Indies.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
Americans.
Civilization.
Travel.
Havana (Cuba) > Civilization.
Havana (Cuba) > History.
Havana (Cuba) > Description and travel.
Havana (Cuba) > Biography.
Cuba > Havana.
Havana.
Cuba.
Travel writing.
Biographies.
History.
Récits de voyages.
Online Access:132054
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. A black-and-white feast
  • Change
  • The hated sea
  • Danger of a black city
  • Cecilia's fire and sugar
  • Beyond the wall
  • The monster
  • The death it has given us
  • The twenty-six-flavor revolution
  • The mulata returns
  • The sound of an African city
  • Frozen in the tropics
  • Sunny side up
  • How to argue in Havana
  • The nocout.

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