A01=Richard Schweid
Author_Richard Schweid
buses
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contemporary Cuba
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North American automobile in Cuba
present-day Havana and Santiago de Cuba
transportation
trucks
vehicles
Product details
- ISBN 9780807858875
- Weight: 314g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2008
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This title presents a car-centered history of life on the island. Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba today and yesterday, gets behind the wheel and behind the stereotype in this colorful chronicle of cars, buses, and trucks. In his captivating, sometimes gritty voice, Schweid blends previously untapped historical sources with his personal experiences, spinning a car-centered history of life on the island over the past century. The narrative is complemented by fifty-two historic black-and-white photographs and eight color photographs by contemporary Cuban photographer Adalberto Roque.
Richard Schweid was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and now lives in Barcelona, Spain, where he is senior editor of the magazine Barcelona Metropolitan. His popular books include Catfish and the Delta: Confederate Fish Farming in the Mississippi Delta, Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum, and The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore.
