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Book Synopsis The Palms Indigenous to Cuba by : Odoardo Beccari
Download or read book The Palms Indigenous to Cuba written by Odoardo Beccari and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Palms Indigenous to Cuba by : Odoardo Beccari
Download or read book The Palms Indigenous to Cuba written by Odoardo Beccari and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palms of Cuba written by Paul Craft and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Palms of Cuba' is the only comprehensive guide to all the 98 taxa of palms native to Cuba along with their classification and an identification key. Included are descriptions for each species, distribution maps, habitat types, conservation status, cultivation needs and other useful information. Both the novice backyard grower and the serious palm aficionado will find plenty of useful information on which species can be grown in the landscape. The 232 pages include over 420 photos of the palms in habitat and a glossary of terms as a reference for the reader.
Book Synopsis Under the Palm Trees: Surviving Labor Camps in Cuba by : Betty Viamontes
Download or read book Under the Palm Trees: Surviving Labor Camps in Cuba written by Betty Viamontes and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Palm Trees in the Snow by : Gloria Maria Strassburger
Download or read book Palm Trees in the Snow written by Gloria Maria Strassburger and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Havana, 1939 --The glamorous capital city of an alluring Caribbean island, the year that Rolando Fernández and Ninina Perea meet and fall in love. Strassburger begins her story with her parents' courtship in the golden years of pre-Castro Cuba. Her memoir recounts how her father's mental collapse and the communist revolution of 1959 uprooted her privileged childhood, both physically and emotionally." --P. [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis Bleeding Palm by : Michael A. Quintana
Download or read book Bleeding Palm written by Michael A. Quintana and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The palm tree is a typical plant of tropical climates. They are abundant in the islands of the Caribbean Sea. There are many variations of this kind of tree. The Royal Palm tree is one of them. It is the tallest, slenderest and most beautiful of the palm trees. It is also the national plant of the island of Cuba. Its leaves are huge and of a deep olive green color. The native Indians of the island used them to make the roofs of their shacks before the Spaniards arrived. The typical Cuban peasant followed the same tradition. Well intertwined, they formed a formidable barrier against the strongest showers, and only hurricanes could persuade them to leave their guarding positions. Once, in 1959, Fidel Castro was asked if his revolution was tinted with the classical red color of communism. He answered that his revolution was not red, but that his revolution had the green color of their uniforms and the Royal Palm trees. In 1962, he finally declared that he had always been a Marxist-Leninist, and that he would be one until his death. Ever since that time, the color of the palm trees in Cuba has been tinted red with the blood of so many Cubans spilled in the name of that sadistic doctrine.
Book Synopsis Palm Trees in the Snow by : Gloria Maria Strassburger
Download or read book Palm Trees in the Snow written by Gloria Maria Strassburger and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havana, 1939-The glamorous capital city of an alluring Caribbean island, the year that Rolando Fernandez and Ninina Perea meet and fall in love. Strassburger begins her story with her parents' courtship in the golden years of pre-Castro Cuba. Her memoir recounts how her father's mental collapse and the communist revolution of 1959 uprooted her privileged childhood, both physically and emotionally. While providing substantial background on Fidel Castro's political revolt, Strassburger focuses on her family's experiences: The appropriation of their wealth and properties by the rebel regime. How families were torn apart as children were taken from their parents, forced to undergo communist indoctrination in Russia. Strassburger narrowly escaped such a fate through Operation Pedro Pan, one of the largest political exoduses of children in history. Fearing for her future, her parents sent her out of Cuba-unaccompanied-in 1961. She relates the terror of being separated from her family and living in a foreign country without them. With affecting detail, Strassburger depicts her family's disintegration as her father spiraled into schizophrenia and communism forced them into exile. They left behind their loved ones, their homes, and their identities to face the hardships of a new life in the United States. Palm Trees in the Snow is a family's story of love, sacrifice and survival. It is the author's tribute to a way of life lost forever and the embracing of a new one in America.
Book Synopsis Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by : Ada Ferrer
Download or read book Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) written by Ada Ferrer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued--through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country's future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington--Barack Obama's opening to the island, Donald Trump's reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden--have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious chronicle written for an era that demands a new reckoning with the island's past. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History reveals the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the influence of the United States on Cuba and the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States--as well as the author's own extensive travel to the island over the same period--this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. --
Book Synopsis Palms of the Dominican Republic by : Jürgen Hoppe
Download or read book Palms of the Dominican Republic written by Jürgen Hoppe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trees of Cuba by : Angela T. Leiva Sánchez
Download or read book Trees of Cuba written by Angela T. Leiva Sánchez and published by MacMillan Caribbean. This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone wishing to identify the most commonly seen trees in Cuba, whether they be in the city, beside the road, on the beach or on other parts of the island. There are well over eight hundred species of tree growing on the island, thus this volume presents only a sample of the enormous arboreal variety to be found in Cuba. The reader will find both native and cultivated species, which have been balanced to present an objective guide.
Download or read book Letters from Cuba written by Ruth Behar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Esther's evocative letters are full of her appreciation for life and reveal a resourceful, determined girl with a rare ability to bring people together, all the while striving to get the rest of their family out of Poland before it's too late. Based on Ruth Behar's family history, this compelling story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the most challenging times.
Download or read book Cuba written by Clyde Butcher and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2005 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations declared the year 2002 as "The Year of the Mountains" and encouraged countries all over the world to have environmental conferences regarding the conservation of mountains. The Conference for the Caribbean and the Americas was held in Cuba, and Clyde Butcher was invited to photograph the mountains of Cuba for the conference. He spent three weeks photographing from the Sierra Maestra of the east coast to the mogote region of the west coast--rain forests, waterfalls, and cliffs that drop off into a perfect ocean. The beauty and majesty of Cuba's natural landscape are captured in his intimate compositions, their focus on shape and light, the horizon and the sky.
Download or read book Telex from Cuba written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indulgences and betrayals of the adult world and are swept up by the political underground and the revolt led by Fidel and Raul Castro. 75,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba by : Reinaldo Funes Monzote
Download or read book From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba written by Reinaldo Funes Monzote and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental history. Funes Monzote demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba--and upon which Cuba urgently depended--also devastated the ecology of the island. The original Spanish-language edition of the book, published in Mexico in 2004, was awarded the UNESCO Book Prize for Caribbean Thought, Environmental Category. For this first English edition, the author has revised the text throughout and provided new material, including a glossary and a conclusion that summarizes important developments up to the present.
Book Synopsis Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by : Tom Gjelten
Download or read book Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba written by Tom Gjelten and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.
Book Synopsis Under the Royal Palms by : Alma Flor Ada
Download or read book Under the Royal Palms written by Alma Flor Ada and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recalls her life and impressions growing up in Cuba.
Book Synopsis Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany as Applied to Subtropical Horticulture by : Charles Fuller Baker
Download or read book Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany as Applied to Subtropical Horticulture written by Charles Fuller Baker and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: