90 Miles to Havana (119 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An American Saga is the story of the man who virtually single-handedly opened up the world to commercial flight: Juan Trippe. The book reveals how a sky-struck young man of immense ambition and vision took a single-engined seaplane carrying mail 90 miles from Key West to Havana and expanded the operation into the vast worldwide airline that at one time was considered the "chosen instrument" of the State Department abroad. Trippe made his own deals with foreign governments and came to own or control the internal airlines of China and of most Latin American nations. To open up Latin America, deals had to be struck with dictators -- and planes named after them. In 1934 to cross the Pacific by air was deemed impossible, but Trippe saw a way to do it. When the first flying boat left San Francisco in 1935, it was given a send-off by 150,000 people and a live nationwide radio audience. This fascinating book brings to life those hazardous early flights -- and the struggle to build a unique organization capable of guiding and supporting them. World War II presented new crises. Here for the first time is the story of how Trippe removed a Nazi threat to the Panama Canal, as well as the account of his behind-the-scenes role in Chiang Kaishek's secret plan to save China from the Communists. Although An American Saga, one of the great aviation epics of this century, is dominated by Trippe, it boasts a remarkable cast of supporting characters, including Charles Lindbergh, Andre Priester, Hugo Leuteritz, Eddie Musick, Bixby and Bond, Sonny Whitney, Joseph Kennedy and Floyd Odlum. Basing his account on extensive interviews with Trippe (who had remained silent for decades) and other participants in this exciting drama, as well as on their private papers and Pan Am files, Robert Daley has created an enthralling narrative. Illustrated with maps and 16 pages of photographs.

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no binding. Condition: very good. Havana (Spanish in full: San Cristóbal de La Habana, usually shortened to just La Habana; is the capital of Cuba and is located just over 90 miles (144 km) south-southwest of Key West, Florida. The city of Havana ("Ciudad de la Habana") is one of the 14 provinces of Cuba. It is located on the northwest coast of Cuba, facing the Straits of Florida, and is surrounded by the province of Havana to the south, east, and west.Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded Havana in 1515 on the southern coast of the island, near the present town of Surgidero de Batabanó. Havana moved to its current location on what was then called Carenas Bay in 1519. Havana was originally a trading port, and suffered regular attacks by buccaneer pirates and French corsairs. The city became the capital of the Spanish colony of Cuba in 1607, and the main port of the Spanish colonies in the New World. The city was officially designated as "Key of the New World and antemural of the West Indies" by the Spanish crown. Goods traded in Havana included gold and silver, alpaca wool from the Andes, emeralds from Colombia, mahoganies from Cuba and Guatemala, leather from the Guajira, spices, sticks of dye from Campeche, corn, manioc and cocoa. Shipments were received from large convoys of sailing ships guarded by Spanish military ships during the summer months. Havana expanded greatly in the 17th century. New buildings were constructed from the most abundant materials of the island, mainly wood, combining various Iberian architectural styles, as well as borrowing profusely from Canarian characteristics. During this period the city also built civic monuments and religious constructions. The convent of St Augustin, El Morro Castle, the chapel of the Humilladero, the fountain of Dorotea de la Luna in La Chorrera, the church of the Holy Angel, the hospital of San Lazaro, the monastery of Santa Teresa and the convent of San Felipe Neri were all completed in this era. In 1649 a fatal epidemic brought from Cartagena in Colombia, affected a third of the population of Havana. On November 30, 1665, Queen Mariana of Austria, widow of King Philip IV of Spain, ratified the heraldic shield of Cuba, which took as its symbolic motifs the first three castles of Havana: that of the Real Force, of Three Santos Reyes Magos del Morro and San Salvador de la Punta. The shield also displayed a symbolic golden key to represent the title of "Key of the Gulf". In the middle of the 18th century, Havana, which by now had more than seventy thousand inhabitants, was seized by the British navy. The city was subsequently governed by Sir George Keppel on behalf of Great Britain. The episode began on June 6, 1762, when at dawn, an impressive British fleet, containing more than fifty ships and fourteen thousand men, drew into Cuban waters. The British seized the city as part of the Seven Years' War, opening it to free trade and bringing thousands of enslaved Africans to the island. In the middle of 1763, only a year after invading, the British returned Havana to the Spanish in exchange for Florida. After regaining the city, the Spanish transformed Havana into the most heavily fortified city in the Americas. Construction began on what was to become the Fortaleza of San Carlos of the Hut, the biggest Spanish fortification in the New World. The work extended for eleven years and was enormously costly, but on completion the fort was considered an unassailable bastion and essential to Havana's defence. It was provided with a large number of cannons forged in Barcelona. Between 1789 and 1790 Cuba was apportioned into individual diocese by the Catholic Church. Shortly thereafter, Havana Cathedral was erected. On January 15, 1796, the remains of Christopher Columbus were transported to the island from Santo Domingo. As trade between Caribbean and North American states increased in the early 19th century, Havana became a flourishing and fashionable city. Havana's theatres received the most distinguished actors of the age, and prosperity amongst the burgeoning middle-class led to new expensive classical mansions being erected. During this period Havana became known as the Paris of the Antilles. The 19th century opened with the arrival in Havana of Alexander von Humboldt, who was impressed by the vitality of the port. In 1837, the first stretch of railroad was constructed, of 51 km, between Havana and Bejucal, which was used for transporting sugar from the valley of Guines to the port of the city. With this, Cuba became the fifth country in the world to have a railroad, and the first Spanish-speaking country. Throughout the century, Havana was enriched by the construction of additional cultural facilities, such as the theater Tacon, one of the most luxurious in the world, the Artistic and Literary Liceo (Lyceum) and the theater Coliseo. In 1863, the city walls were knocked down so that the metropolis could be extended. At the end of the century, the well-off classes moved to the quarter of the Vedado. Later, they emigrated towards Miramar, and today, increasingly on the west, they have settled in Siboney. At the end of the 19th century Havana saw the last moments of the Spanish colonization in America, which ended definitively when the United States warship Maine was sunk in its port, giving that country the pretext to invade the island. The 20th century began with Havana, and therefore Cuba, under occupation by the USA.

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Oblong octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, 90 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This unique book chronicles the history of what many aviation enthusiasts believe to be the world's greatest airline -- Pan American. From its modest beginnings in 1927, when Juan Trippe obtained an exclusive contract to fly the mail on the 90-mile flight between Key West and Havana, the airline has grown to encompass the entire globe, always pioneering new routes, experimenting with the newest and best aircraft available, acculumlating valuable experience in long-distance navigation and weather forecasting. With Charles Lindbergh as technical adviser, Pan American set as its first objective the development of air routes throughout the Caribbean and South America. This was achieved by a heady mixture of technical brilliance and political intrigue. During the 1930s air service was extended to the South Pacific and the Far East, when Pan Am introduced the China Clippers, the famous Sikorsky and Martin flying boats that were the first American commercial aircraft able to make long ocean crossings. In 1937 Pan Am adopted the remarkable DC-3s, and air transport was rapidly accepted by the public as safe and reliable. The strategy behind this book is unusual. Instead of a conventional narrative history, R. E. G. Davies has chosen to present the growth of Pan American in discrete sections, each organized around the acquisition of a new airplane or the expansion of its air routes. In addition to documenting the growth of an airline, the book re-creates the step-by-step growth of commercial aviation technology, from the early Fokkers and Ford Tri-Motors to today's giant Boeing, Douglas, and Lockheed turbojets, as shown in Mike Machat's masterful and poainstakingly accurate illustrations. Aviation, Commercial Aviation, Airlines, Pan Am. nslic.

Condition: New. 90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerrillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Open for Business examines the Cuban economy from its long held and outdated economic model to its early steps into developing a dynamic market economy. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590. . 2016. Hardcover. . . . .

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1981 I was an Evaluator at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, a center for the relocation of the 7,500 refugees that remained there, who had left Cuba from the Port of Mariel and for that reason were later known as Marielitos. My job there was to interview the refugees and make recommendations regarding their relocation. This was not an easy task because many of these 7,500 refugees had come from prisons or mental institutions. I heard their stories, their struggle to survive in or out of jail. This is the story of Victor who was taken from Combinado del Este prison in Havana and forced by the Cuban government to leave the country. The book depicts the everyday life in the Cuban prison and the socio-political situation in Cuba in 1980, year of the exodus through the port of Mariel. In 1980 the Cuban government withdraws the guards surrounding the Peruvian Embassy in Havana. In a few hours, ten thousand people were crowding the Embassy to request political asylum. Soon, hundreds of inmates were being transferred from jails in the Island's Interior to prisons in Havana. The government then announces that everyone who so wanted, could leave the country. When what was later known as the Freedom Flotilla arrived in Cuba, the government compelled the exiled Cubans from Florida who had gone to the Island to fetch their relatives and friends, to also load their vessels with people selected by the government: dissidents, prisoners, the mentally ill, homosexuals. Many of the prisoners had been given false documents by the Cuban government to hide the fact that they had come out of jails. In less than two months, the waters of the 90 miles of sea converyed, from Cuba to Key West, some 125,000 Marielitos. Mireya Robles.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1960 my father got into a rowboat from Havana, Cuba and rowed 90 miles to the United States to start his new life. By the time I got into seventh grade, I was telling my friends that my father saved all of his family, all of his friends, piled everyone into that boat and rowed everybody over to America. By the time I got into high school, I was telling my friends that my father stole five boats from Castros navy, saved all of his friends, all of his family, all of his first, second, third, fourth, and fifth cousins, everyone on his block, all of the pets, and everybody on his baseball team. He piled them into the boat. There was no room for him in the boat, so he tied those boats together with a big rope, put that rope around his shoulders and he swam everybody over to the United States. . . Born in Boston to a Cuban father and an Irish-American mother, Antonio Sacre is one of the few leprecanos on the national speaking circuit. Using his own personal history and telling the stories that audiences across the nation have found so captivating and wonderful, this award-winning storyteller and author weaves the Spanish language, Cuban and Mexican customs, and Irish humor into an unforgettable book of humor, inspiration, tradition, and family. My Name is Cool is a classic story sure to transcend, like the author himself, cultures and boundaries. Born in Boston to a Cuban father and an Irish-American mother, Antonio Sacre is one of the few leprecanos on the national speaking circuit. U sing his own personal history and telling the stories that audiences across the nation have found so captivating Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliche, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santeria trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa. This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today.Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us. A young American journalist shares her experience of living in Havana and offers an evocative and revealing look at Cuba's youth culture Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 90 MILES SOUTH is a story of adventure, culture shock, and ill-advised romance. A young American risks prison and fines by illegally smuggling himself into Cuba. He grows obsessed with the crumbling streets of Havana-the history, the politics, and most of all, the people. But at the same time, he feels a searing pain every time he opens his eyes to the ubiquitous poverty and prostitution. And, of course, there is a girl. Our somewhat befuddled hero grows infatuated with a beautiful girl of dubious profession, but he does not seem to be psychologically capable of taking that step from his suburban universe to a relationship with a Magdalene of the third world. But he comes back.this time as a reporter covering the pope's historic visit to Cuba in 1998. As he follows both the pope and the lovely Susanna around Havana, he attempts to solve the puzzle of politics, religion, and love on that mysterious island-and he finds himself entrenched in an exhausting wrestling match of values.

No Binding. Condition: Fair. REVOLUTION CUBAN STYLE, Green, New World, 1970, 125p, pb, covers bumped/scuffed, text tanning/clean, binding solid + ECONOMY SOCIALIST CUBA, Mesa-Lago, U New Mexico, 1981, 235p, trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed, text tanning/clean, binding solid, water damage + EARLY FIDEL, Martin, Lyle Stuart, 1978, 271p, xlib/ex-textbook, hc w/ dj, w/ usual stamps/markings/librarian/borrower abuse + CUBA CONFIDENTIAL, LOVE AND VENGEANCE IN MIAMI AND HAVANA, Bardach, Vintage, 2002, 423p, trade pb, bumped/scuffed covers, clean/tanning text, solid binding + FIDEL CASTRO'S PERSONAL REVOLUTION IN CUBA: 1959-1973, Goodsell, Knopf, 1975, 349p, pb, bumped/scuffed covers, clean/tanning text, solid binding + CUBANS IN AMERICA, Mendez, Lerner Pubs, 1994, 80p, hc no dj, xlib kid's book + FIDEL Y LA RELIGION, CONVERSACIONES CON FREI BETTO, EN ESPANOL, in Spanish, Oficina de Publicaciones, Havana, 1985, trade pb, 382p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, text tanning text, tight bind, inscription front fly + TWENTY YEARS AND FORTY DAYS: LIFE IN A CUBAN PRISON, Jorge Valls, America's Watch, 1986, trade pb, 125p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, text tanning text, tight bind + CUBA.THE CONTINUING REVOLUTION, Gil Green, Int'l Pubs, trade pb, 1983, 120p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, text tanning text, tight bind + CASTRO'S REVOLUTION" MYTHS AND REALITIES, Theodore Draper, Praeger, trade pb, 211p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, text tanning, underlining, marginalia, water damage, tight bind + THE BAY OF PIGS: THE LEADERS' STORY OF BRIGADE 2506, Haynes Johnson, Dell, pb, 1964, 352p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, text tanning text, tight bind + 90 MILES FROM HOME: THE TRUTH FROM INSIDE CASTRO'S CUBA--AND IT IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD! , Warren Miller, Crest, pb, 256p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, missing piece front cover/front flys, approx 2", text tanning text, tight bind + CASTRO'S CUBA, CUBA'S FIDEL, LOCKWOOD, Vintage trade pb, 1969, 363p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, text tanning text, tight bind + CUBA: SOCIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT, Rene Dumont, pb, Grove Press, 1970, 240p, covers bumped, scuffs, sunning, slight bumps, text tanning text, tight bind + FIDEL: A CRITICAL PORTRAIT, Tad Szulc, 2000, Avon, trade pb, 703p, cover bumped, creased, scuffs, , text tanning, edges mottled, tight bind + CUBA: THE PURSUIT OF FREEDOM, Thomas, Harper Row, 1971, 1st ed., 1696p, hc w/dj, dj bumped, creased, scuffs, small tears, sunning, boards slight bumps, text tanning, edges mottled, tight bind + GUERRILLAS IN POWER: THE COURSE OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, Karol, Hioll and Wang, 1970, hc w/ dj, 624p, xlib + SEMPER FIDEL: AMERICA AND CUBA, 1776-1988, Mazarr, Nautical Aviation Pubishing Co, 1988, hc with dj, 521p, dj bumped, creased, scuffs, boards slight bumps, text tanning, tight bind + FAMILY PORTRAIT WITH FIDEL, A MEMOIR, Franqui, Random House, 1984, 262p, hc w dj, xlib + THE UNITED STATES, CUBA AND THE COLD WAR: AMERICAN FAILURE OR COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY?, ed Langley, DC Heath Co., 1970, trade pb, 106p, cover bumped, creased, sunning, scuffs, text tanning, tight bind + ESSENCE OF DECISION: EXPLAINING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, Allison, Litle Brown, 1971, trade pb, 338p, cover bumped, sunning, scuffs, text tanning, tight bind, penciling front fly , in text marginalia + CUBA; TRAGEDY IN OUR HEMISPHERE, Zeitlin and Scheer, Black Cat, 1963, pb, 316p, bumped, sunning, scuffs, text tanning, tight bind + LISTEN YANKEE: THE REVOLUTION IN CUBA, Mills, Ballantine, pb, 1960, 192p, bumped, text tanning, tight bind, + HIGHLIGHTS OF GREATER MIAMI, Mills, Mills Pubs, 1950, 96p, trade pb pamphlet stapled, bumped scuffed color cover, text tanning + American Policy Failures in Cuba, mM. Lazo, Twin Circle, 1968, 447p, trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, clean text, solid binding + CUBAN COMMMUNISM, ed. Horowitz, Aldine, 1970, 143p, trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, clean text, sol.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Havana, Cuba in 1957 was the original gambling sin city. The haunt of the wealthy and famous offering gambling, sex, and drugs in an exotic Caribbean setting only 90 miles from Florida. Luxury casinos with five-star hotels, fine dining, and elaborate floorshows with scantily clad beautiful women. A corrupt dictatorship inviting investment by the American Mafia fuels Havana's hospitality industry success. Cuban-American Bart Landeira resigns from the CIA in disgust after working as a field operative following service in WWII. Havana is to be a new beginning. He returns to journalism and unexpectedly becomes involved with the family rum business. Reconnecting with his estranged father, he learns disturbing details of his father's involvement with the American Mafia and Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landeira's father is a lawyer with a consulting practice in Tampa, Florida and Havana. The elder Landeira is also chief financial officer of the family corporation invested in sugar cane, tobacco, and rum. His father's consulting work centers on creating shell companies to enable money laundering and conceal Mafia investment in Havana. Batista's corrupt partnership with the Mafia fuels a growing leftist insurgency resulting in violent attempts at repression by the Cuban Army. Events interact to push Landeira into active political resistance against the Mafia and the Batista regime.

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Havana, Cuba in 1957 was the original gambling sin city. The haunt of the wealthy and famous offering gambling, sex, and drugs in an exotic Caribbean setting only 90 miles from Florida. Luxury casinos with five-star hotels, fine dining, and elaborate floorshows with scantily clad beautiful women. A corrupt dictatorship inviting investment by the American Mafia fuels Havana's hospitality industry success. Cuban-American Bart Landeira resigns from the CIA in disgust after working as a field operative following service in WWII. Havana is to be a new beginning. He returns to journalism and unexpectedly becomes involved with the family rum business. Reconnecting with his estranged father, he learns disturbing details of his father's involvement with the American Mafia and Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landeira's father is a lawyer with a consulting practice in Tampa, Florida and Havana. The elder Landeira is also chief financial officer of the family corporation invested in sugar cane, tobacco, and rum. His father's consulting work centers on creating shell companies to enable money laundering and conceal Mafia investment in Havana. Batista's corrupt partnership with the Mafia fuels a growing leftist insurgency resulting in violent attempts at repression by the Cuban Army. Events interact to push Landeira into active political resistance against the Mafia and the Batista regime.

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