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Scottish-born naturalist and writer John Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867, just a few years after the Civil War. After recovering from an injury at a saw mill, Muir decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Without any real direction or purpose other than to study the flora and fauna, Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida...
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543 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm + 1 pull-out map.
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Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home-naming it the Finca Vigia-with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment that he couldn't find anywhere else. Now, through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying text, Robert Wheeler takes us through the streets and near...
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1 videodisc (approximately 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Geoffrey Baer is the viewer's guide on a walking tour of Havana, meeting singers, dancers, chefs, and more, and focusing on people, architecture, culture, and history of the Cuba just re-opened to Americans.
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xii, 259 pages ; 21 cm
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"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 throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend...
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"'La Americana' is the story of Melanie Bowden Simon, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown's 'Talk' magazine following the death of her mother and decided to travel to Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with a Cuban man named Luis and dive headlong into a culture defined by beauty, humor, and grace within the unnerving realities of communism. In this memoir, Simon details her...
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viii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelves. Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain. But those who look close enough realize the blueprints for the island's next revolution may be etched in plain view. This is Cuba begins in the summer of 2009...
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3 videodiscs (645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anthony Bourdain has explored every corner of the globe trying to satisfy his curiosity about the international cultural landscape. You'd think he'd seen it all by now. But in this collection of No Reservations, Tony pushes himself even more, in destinations like Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua. Things are going to be a little more difficult for Tony this time around, and perhaps even for the viewer. Political, moral, class or philosophical issues trouble...
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