List Price: $18.95
Size 5x8
Format: Paperback
Category: History/U.S./Cuba
ISBN 1-933698-07-1
ISBN 13 978-1-933698-07-6
Original publication
date: 1860
Richard Henry Dana: 1815 - 1882
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To Cuba and Back
During
the 19th century, Cuba was an integral part of the US
expansion dream. In 1859 Richard Henry Dana,
internationally renowned author of the seafaring classic,
Two Years Before the Mast, set sail for the
island nation. Dana captures the sights, sounds, and smells
of a country in the lucid style for which he is best known.
His tales of Cuban hotels, cigar smoking, bull fighting,
slavery, and religion are acutely observed. Dana, active in
the anti-slavery movement in the United States, provides
absorbing accounts of sugar plantations and the economics of
slave labor, along with the tumultuous lasting effects of
the Spanish colonial rule. It’s from his day to day
encounters with the Cuban people that Dana explores the
truth of this beautiful, complex nation. This is a
travelogue of the highest order; one that embraces culture
and custom while displaying an uncanny sense of what was to
come to this tropical land.
About the Author
Richard Henry Dana was born in
Massachusetts in 1815. After his shipboard adventures, he
attended Harvard, became a lawyer and an expert in maritime
law, as well as a prominent abolitionist. Dana was a
life-long advocate for civil rights for every man. He was
personally acquainted with many of the important literary
figures of his day, including Hawthrone and Emerson. Dana
died in 1882 while visiting Rome. |
