Introduction
Travelers
Anthony Trollope
from The West Indies and the Spanish Main
William Cullen Bryant
“Letter XLVIII” from Letters of a Traveller
Walter D. Wilcox
“Among the Mahogany Forests of Cuba”
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Eleanor Early
from Ports of the Sun
Consuelo Hermer and Marjorie May
from Havana Mañana: A Guide to Cuba and the Cubans
Robert Stone
“Havana Then and Now”
Alma Guillermoprieto
from Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Andrei Codrescu
from Ay, Cuba!
Kimi Eisele
“The Flesh, the Bones, and the Beating Heart”
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Expatriates, Real and Imagined
Elmore Leonard
from Cuba Libre
Stephen Crane
“The Clan of No-Name”
Graham Greene
from Our Man in Havana
Ernest Hemingway
from “The Great Blue River”
Jim Shepard
“Batting Against Castro”
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Isadora Tattlin
from Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana
Aficionados
Langston Hughes
“Havana Nights”
Jayne Cortez
“Visita” and “In 1985 I Met Nicolás Guillén”
Allen Ginsberg
from an interview with Allen Young in Gay Sunshine
Elizabeth Hanly
“Santería: An Alternative Pulse”
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Pico Iyer
from Cuba and the Night
Tom Miller
from Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro’s Cuba
Holly Morris
“Adventure Divas”
Thomas Barbour
from A Naturalist in Cuba
Exiles, Immigrants, and Their Offspring
Oscar Hijuelos
from The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Ruth Behar
“In the Absence of Love”
Cristina García
“Simple Life”
Carlos Eire
“Trece” from Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
“Charada China”
Rosa Lowinger
“Repairing Things”
José Barriero
from The Indian Chronicles
