CUBA

Cuba is synonymous with sugar and cigars, rum and revolution, classic cars and socialism, dream beaches and music. But it is also a country that has protected one-fifth of its surface area. This book presents fascinating nature of the country and its diverse culture in 300 pictures. Cigars and rum, music and dance, this is a spectacular image gallery of Havana, its stunning architecture and villas, Ernest Hemingway and the bar El Floridita in Old Havana, boxing, old American colourful cars, the Malecón along the waterfront, pastel coloured façades, tobacco fields and drying tobacco, stunning valleys and the agricultural life, banana plantations and the exquisite perfect beaches at Varadero, sugarcane, yacht clubs, spiritual sanctuaries and the great cities of Santiago de Cuba, Pinar del Rio, Camaguey and Guantánamo plus images of stunning wildlife with flamingos, tortoise and American crocodile pictured semi-submerged. Maps, stunning full page colour photos. Text in six languages. Softback, 17 x 20.8cm, 360pp.