Twenty-four year old Lissette Delgado was beaten, raped, & then strangled with a towel. Marijuana is found in her apartment & her wardrobe is suspiciously beyond the means of a high school teacher. Lieutenant Conde is pressured by ”the highest authority” to conclude this investigation quickly when chance leads him into the arms of a beautiful redhead, a saxophone player who shares his love for jazz & Japanese fighting fish. This is a Havana of crumbling, grand buildings, secrets hidden behind faded doors & corruption. For an author living in Cuba, Padura is remarkably outspoken about the failings of Castro`s regime. Yet this is a eulogy of Cuba, its life of music, sex & the great friendships of those who elected to stay & fight for survival. ...

Lonely Planet: The world`s number one travel guide publisher* Durable & waterproof, with a handy slipcase & easy-fold format, Lonely Planet`s Havana City Map helps you get around with ease. Get more from your map & your trip with images & information about top city attractions, walking tour routes, transport maps, itinerary suggestions, extensive street & site index, & practical travel tips & directory. With this easy-to-use, full-color map in your rear pocket, you can truly get to the heart of Havana. Durable & waterproof Easy-fold format & convenient size Handy slipcase Full color & easy to use Extensive street & site index Images & information about top city attractions Handy transport maps Walking tour routes Practical travel tips & directory Itinerary suggestions Covers Habana Vieja, Parque Historico Militar Morro Cabana, Centro Habana, Vedado, Playa & Marianao, Playas del Este Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet`s Pocket Havana, our handy-sized guide featuring the best sights & experiences for a short visit. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company & the world`s number one travel guidebook br&, providing both inspiring & trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we`ve printed over 145 million guidebooks & grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You`ll also find our content online, & in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair & lifestyle books, ebooks, & more.` Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.`
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Havana in the Everyman Map Guide series; comprising a range of practical guide books incorporating large scale maps to a number of international cities & regions. Including a unique binding method, each district, neighbourhood, area or region has an accompanying fold-out page with a large scale overview map which is fully indexed. Each Map Guide also has details of more than 100 shops, restaurants, bars, clubs, markets & other local attractions, in addition to more practical guidance, listed underneath & on the reverse of the fold-out map. All of the main attractions also have accompanying illustrations, & there are also transport maps & a street index to help visitors find their way around. ...

Havana in Michelin’s ‘ Must Sees’ series is a lightweight guide containing must see information, must see sights, must do activities & must know practicalities graded using Michelin’s time-honoured star rating system. The guide opens with a section of useful ‘ Must Know’ information that

Includes:: a calendar of events, practical tips on getting by & a summary of Michelin selected star attractions. The ‘ Must See’ section of the guide look at shopping, nightlife & theatre, hotels & dining, parks & gardens, neighbourhoods, landmarks, museums, historic sites, practical information, events, tips & excursions. The ‘ Must Do’ chapter

Includes:: a focus on activities for children, whereas places to eat & places to stay are reviewed in the ‘ Must Eat’ & ‘ Must Stay’ chapters.



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To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical wreckage of sin, sex & noise, a parallel world familiar but exotic
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Havana in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

Havana in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, & its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider`s view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, & Kurlansky`s own pen-&-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city`s singular music, literature, baseball, & food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; & its extraordinary blend of cultures. Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it is today--from the native Taino to Columbus`s landing, from Cuba`s status as a U.S. protectorate to Batista`s dictatorship & Castro`s revolution, from Soviet presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since long before the revolution. Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentier & José Martí, & foreigners, including Graham Greene & Hemingway. He introduces us to Cuban baseball & its highly opinionated fans; the city`s music scene, alive with the rhythm of son; its culinary legacy. Through Mark Kurlansky`s multilayered & electrifying portrait, the long-elusive city of Havana comes stirringly to life. ...

Havana triggers a wealth of images & projections in our mind`s eye. Beyond the cliches, the phot ographer Eva
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In Have a Nice Day the BBC’s North America Editor, Justin Webb, travels beyond the lazy clichés that most Europeans like to think of America & plunges into what makes this paradoxical country work. Webb is keen to uncover the real America & stay clear of recent controversies such as the presidency of George W Bush & the Iraq way, preferring to dwell instead on the question of just what makes America so successful. Although Webb still explores the issues that many Europeans tend to sneer at, such as guns, racial divisions & the influence of the Christian right, this book helps put the rough edges of American life into both geographical & intellectual context. With the election of Barack Obama in the November 2008 election, Webb’s work comes at an apposite time, as the country embarks on a completely new direction as the world watches on. This is exactly the time, Webb is claiming, that we should re-evaluate the very essence of the USA, at why Americans think as they do & indeed why they might actually have a point. ...