Conversations with Cuba

C.Peter Ripley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2001
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-2302-2 (ISBN)

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A sympathetic, street-level pilgrimage through a revolutionary society in transition, recounting the author's six trips to Cuba between 1991 and 1999, and his attachment to the country. This paperback edition is updated with an epilogue that details Ripley's seventh trip to Cuba in July 2000.

This is a sympathetic, street-level pilgrimage through a revolutionary society in transition, and the story of a passionate, struggling, sometimes discouraged but always proud country, told by citizens whose confidence in their revolution is both enduring and conflicted. The narrative recounts the author's six trips to Cuba between 1991 and 1999. Updated with an epilogue that details Ripley's seventh trip to Cuba in July 2000, this edition shows, through is firsthand experiences, observations, and conversations with ordinary Cubans, how he strives to understand and reveal Cuba, its revolution, and his attachment to both.

C. Peter Ripley lives in northern Florida. Conversations with Cuba is his ninth book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2001
Vorwort	Bob Shacochis
Zusatzinfo	16 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	Georgia
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	428 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8203-2302-0 / 0820323020
ISBN-13	978-0-8203-2302-2 / 9780820323022
Zustand	Neuware