Product Description: Few places are as fascinating as Cuba, which has drawn travelers ever since it was "discovered" by Columbus in 1492. Magnificently evoking the romance and drama as well as darker episodes of slavery and tyranny, this book moves from the pirate days when Havana sheltered treasure ships to the "American era" when it became a glittering Mafia paradise...read more

An anthology of travel writing about Cuba offers twenty-three accounts dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and includes writings by Anthony Trollope, John Muir, Anais Nin, Langston Hughes, Graham Greene, Tommy Lasorda, and Amiri Baraka