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  • Island Possessed

    by Katherine Dunham ...
    Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • My Seductive Cuba - a unique travel guide

    by Chen Lizra ...
    Enough books have been written about Cuba to fill an entire library, but few take the approach Chen Lizra does with "My Seductive Cuba." Deeply personal and always engaging, Lizra - an Israeli-born dance instructor and entrepreneur now living in Canada - fuses history and politics with her real-life experiences among the people of this often-visited but little-understood island. The result is a ... Read more

    $3.68 USD

  • The Middle Passage

    by V. S. Naipaul ...
    **From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a classic of modern travel writing—a deft portrait of Trinidad and the four adjacent Caribbean societies still haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism.“Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain.” —New Statesman**In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Trouble in Paradise

    by Simon Morris ...
    Lies, damned lies and holiday brochures. A comedy of errors in the Caribbean. ... Read more

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  • Island People

    The Caribbean and the World

    by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro ...
    A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination.From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Offering from the Conscious Body

    The Discipline of Authentic Movement

    by Janet Adler ...
    The exploration of the direct experience of healing and of the divine through the witnessing of movement becoming conscious.• Uses sample sessions and descriptive theory to explain the discipline.• Based on the author's 35 years of movement work.Offering from the Conscious Body reveals both the theory and practice of a unique body-based process that is cathartic, creative, healing, and mystical- ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Calico Jack, Anne Bonny and Mary Read: The Lives and Legacies of History's Most Famous Pirate Crew

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes historic illustrations depicting Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and important people in their lives.*Includes the profiles of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny and Mary Read from the famous English pirate history "A General History of the Pyrates".*Discusses common legends about the three famous pirates, separating fact from fiction.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Haiti

    A Shattered Nation

    by Elizabeth Abbott ...
    Written by a journalist and family insider, "the most intimate and revealing examination to date" of the Duvaliers and their Haitian legacy. ( Publishers Weekly)Recounts the depredations and corruption of the Duvalier regime in Haiti, from the election of Papa Duvalier in 1957 to the exile of his son, Jean Claude. Written by the senior editor of the Haiti Times and the sister-in-law of Baby Doc's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Planets

    by Sergio Chejfec ...
    Translated by Heather Cleary ...
    A writer remembers his childhood friend, M, who was disappeared in Argentina's Dirty War. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ballroom Dancing

    by Alex Moore ...
    This early work on dancing is a fascinating read for any dance enthusiast. Extensively illustrated with 72 diagrams and photographs to complement comprehensive step-by-step guides to a variety of dance steps. Contents Include: The Quickstep, The Waltz, The Foxtrot, The Tango, Popular Dances, Old Time Dances, Ballroom Novelty Dances and Games, and The Practical Side of Teaching. Many of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abandoned Havana

    by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo ...
    Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His “diary of dystopia”—an unexpected fusion of images and words—brings us closer to Havana’s scaffolded and crumbling facades, ramshackle waterfronts, and teeming human bodies. In this book, as beautiful and bleak as Havana ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Family Mansion

    A Novel

    by Anthony C. Winkler ...
    A darkly comic novel of an Englishman in nineteenth-century Jamaica: "A powerful and deeply moving tour de force" ( Library Journal).The Family Mansion tells the story of Hartley Fudges, whose personal destiny unfolds against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Britain, a time when English society was based upon the strictest subordination and stratification of the classes. Hartley's decision to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus