Category Archives: Caribbean
Belladonna
โ€Belladonna is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable . . . One of the truly outstanding novels of recent yearsโ€ EILEEN BATTERSBY, Los Angeles Review of Books** Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2018**** Shortlisted for the inaugural E.B.R.D. Prize for Literature **** Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize **An excoriating work of fiction
Between the Wars: 1919-1939
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. โ€What will you call it?โ€ he was asked. โ€The First World War,โ€ was his bleak response.In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points – cultural and social as well as political and military
The Sorrows of Mexico
With contributions from seven of Mexico`s finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary – it has the power to change the world`s view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country`s many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant`s for the Arts Programme and
The Baltimore Boys
NOVEMBER 24, 2004The day of the tragedy. The end of a brotherhood.The Baltimore Boys. The Goldman Gang. That was what they called Marcus Goldman and his cousins Woody and Hillel. Three brilliant young men with dazzling futures ahead of them, before their kingdom crumbled beneath the weight of lies, jealousy and betrayal. For years, Marcus
The Chessmen
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill – a local poacher, Fin`s teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn
The Birds of Panama: A Field Guide
The isthmus of Panama, where North and South America meet, hosts more bird species than all of North America. More accessible than ever to birdwatchers and other ecotourists, the country has become a premier neotropical birding and nature tourism destination in recent years. The Birds of Panama will be an essential tool for the new
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
What lights the spark that ignites a revolution? What was it that, in 1775, provoked a group of merchants, farmers, artisans and mariners in the American colonies to unite and take up arms against the British government in pursuit of liberty? Nathaniel Philbrick, the acclaimed historian and bestselling author of In the Heart of the
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
โ€Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald`s will come away from this book with a better understanding of what makes modern America what it is.โ€ – Chicago Tribuneโ€A fascinating work… with a subject central to contemporary life but to which few, if any, have devoted so
Fallen Land
Poplar Farm has been in Louise`s family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives and societies taking place all over America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property
Another America
James Ciment, in his enthralling history Another America, shows that the settlers struggled to balance their high ideals with their prejudices. On the steamy shores of West Africa, they re-created the only social order they knew, that of an antebellum Dixie, with themselves as the master caste, ruling over a native population that outnumbered them
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
โ€When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an
The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts
A quarter of a million U.S. troops are massed in over seven hundred major official overseas airbases around the world. In the past decade, the Pentagon has formulated and enacted a plan to realign, or reconfigure, its bases in keeping with new doctrines of pre-emption and intensified concern with strategic resource control, all with seemingly
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. A rugged outpost battered by harsh winters, Sukkertoppen is overshadowed by the threat of dissent; natives from neighboring villages have united to reject Danish rule and establish their own settlement atop Eternal Fjord.
Traveling Heavy: A Memoir In Between Journeys
Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family,
Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism
The worldwide development of ecotourism – including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching – has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often physically and emotionally strenuous endeavors. Drawing on
The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may
The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America`s Wilderness Trail
Designated as one of the first two national scenic trails in 1968, the Pacific Crest Trail is a continuous footpath of more than 2,650 miles from the Mexican border to the Canadian border through California, Oregon, and Washington. Hikers from all over the world are drawn to this trail to experience true American wilderness and
Old Cuba: Urban and Vernacular Architecture
Cuba dominates the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, fixed between the great continents to the north and to the south, and has long served as a bridge between the Old World and the New. First visited by Christopher Columbus in 1492, its history of interaction with the Old World of Europe is among the
The Acid Test
When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar โ€Leftyโ€ Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra, a well-known stripper, had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by the night he spent in her company.
The Firemaker
THE FIRST OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA NOVELS, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE. LI YAN A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost
