The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba

The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba

by StephenSmith (Author)

Synopsis

For a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Author Smith went to live on the island, his search for the real Cuba becoming, inevitably, a search for Fidel Castro. Before meeting his quarry, Smith travelled extensively through the "land of miracles" in an old American car. His account features a bloody initiation into a voodoo-like cult, dining on giant rat, and checking into the Love Hotel. He also describes going on manoeuvres in the Everglades with armed, but not especially competent, Cuban exiles dreaming of a second Bay of Pigs. He investigates a country where communism and voodoo co-exist, and where the influence of its leader of 40 years continues to throw a long shadow.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 08 Jan 1998

ISBN 10: 0349108137
ISBN 13: 9780349108131

Media Reviews
**Entertaining ... the best guide to this beautiful, bedevilled island. Unfailingly well written' SUNDAY TIMES **'Fascinating ... genuinely brilliant' Jon Snow, OBSERVER **'Essential reading' Norman Lewis **'{Stephen Smith ) is the best sort of reporter; detached, ironic, yet well-versed on the terrain he's exploring ... a compelling portrait of a society on the verge of an ideological breakdown' Douglas Kennedy, INDEPENDENT
Author Bio
Born the same year as the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, Channel 4 News reporter Stephen Smith has been fascinated by the island since he first heard the hijackers' slogan 'Fly me to Havana!' He is a regular contributor to the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS and ot