Havana : a subtropical delirium / 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, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana c...

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Main Author: Kurlansky, Mark (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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Physical Description:xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Prologue. A black-and-white feast -- Change -- The hated sea -- Danger of a black city -- Cecilia's fire and sugar -- Beyond the wall -- The monster -- The death it has given us -- The twenty-six-flavor revolution -- The mulata returns -- The sound of an African city -- Frozen in the tropics -- Sunny side up -- How to argue in Havana -- The nocout. 
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