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Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
Tom Miller
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Description for Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
Paperback. A travel classic, revised after twenty years: a journalist's lyrical account of life in Castro's Cuba. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KJC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 390.
Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the author presents us with a rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U.S. embargo and tell their favourite Fidel jokes as they stand in line for bread at the Socialism or Death Bakery. Miller provides a running commentary on Cuba's ... Read more
Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the author presents us with a rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U.S. embargo and tell their favourite Fidel jokes as they stand in line for bread at the Socialism or Death Bakery. Miller provides a running commentary on Cuba's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
390g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465005031
SKU
V9780465005031
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Ref
99-1
About Tom Miller
Tom Miller is a veteran of the underground press of the 1960s. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, LIFE, the New York Times, Natural History, and many other publications and he has appeared on NBC, NPR, CNN, HBO, XM, and CSPAN, among other broadcast outlets. He has been affiliated with the University of Arizona's Latin American Area ... Read more
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