Cuba: The Land of Miracles
by Stephen Smith

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For a growing number of holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, and his search for the real Cuba inevitably becomes a search for Fidel Castro too. Before meeting his quarry, Smith travels extensively through the 'land of miracles' in an old American automobile. His highly-personalised account features a bloody initiation into a voodoo-like cult, dining on giant rat, and checking into the Love Hotel. And he goes on manoeuvres in the Everglades with armed, but not especially competent, Cuban exiles dreaming of a second Bay of Pigs. With disarming wit and considerable insight, Stephen Smith investigates a country where communism and voodoo coexist, and where the influence of its leader of forty years continues to throw a long shadow.

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ISBN-10:	0349119678
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780349119670
Author:	Stephen Smith
Publisher:	Abacus London
Publication Date:	2005
Pages:	292 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8 x 5
Binding:	Paperback