Waiting for Fidel
by Hunt, Christopher
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0395868866
- ISBN 13
- 9780395868867
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998) 0395868866. 210 x 140 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 259; map. Lower cover and final leaves a little creased; sunned on spine; light browning. Very good. 'The New York Times says, "Christopher Hunt makes a lively travel companion." This time he sets his sights on Cuba, where crumbling but elegant facades overlook shady street activities, where vintage Ford Fairlanes rumble past Soviet Ladas in the fast lanes of eerily deserted boulevards, and where an aging Fidel Castro is struggling to maintain his grip on a population yearning for aire libre, or at least Air Jordans. When an inquisitive and mischievous American lands in Cuba and begins asking, "Where's Fidel?" the answers take him from Havana's squalid alleys to its steamy nightclubs from Cuba's endless expanses of sugar cane to the craggy peaks that once sheltered the bearded dictator.' .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8146
- Title
- Waiting for Fidel
- Author
- Hunt, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0395868866
- ISBN 13
- 9780395868867
- Publisher
- (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998) 0395868866
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1998-01
- Keywords
- Cuba. Communism. Independent travellers. Caribbean Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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