Biographical portraits of cities are in vogue. This lively addition to the genre is essentially a history, beginning with Columbus and the incursions of French pirates and ending with the fortunes of the Industriales, Cuba’s most popular baseball team. A former Latin America correspondent, Mark Kurlansky visited the island regularly in the 1980s and 1990s. At the start of that period, he met Cubans who had known their African-born grandparents: ‘Slavery lasted longer in Cuba than anywhere else in the Americas,’ writes Kurlansky.

Literary Review

Mar 2017

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Sara Wheeler

No Country for Young Men

Once So Great

The White Stuff

A Nonagenarian Writes

No One is Immune

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Writing their Own Romance

The Saddest Pleasure

Tales of Derring-Do

Burma Discovered through a Shapely Basket

In Memoriam

Shine On

Water, Water, Everywhere

The Pursuit of Fear

Travelling Companions

Child Of The Pole

Destination Kugluktuk

The Icemen Cometh

Going Down With The Ship

Cowboy Builders

Jacks On A Table

Endangered Animals Happy Meal

Tips About Icebergs

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