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Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean

by David Cordingly

From David Cordingly, one of the world’s foremost experts on pirate history, and author of the perennial favorite Under the Black Flag, comes the thrilling story of the man who fought the real pirates of the...


Operacion Pedro Pan

by Yvonne Conde

Poco después de establecer su dictadura en 1959, y el caos social que resultó de la misma, corrieron rumores que Fidel Castro decretaría que la potestad de todos los niños cubanos sería asumida por el estado....


Caribbean Geography: A Scholarly Bibliography

by Thomas A. Rumney

The lands and waters of the Caribbean region have stimulated an extensive body of research and writing across the many fields of geography. This book collects, organizes, and presents as many of these scholarly...


Haiti and the Americas

by Carla Calarge & Raphael Dalleo

Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of...


The Essential Pirate Anthology

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books about pirates:

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

The Madman and the Pirate- R.M. Ballantyne

Blackbeard Or, The Pirate of Roanoke.- B. Barker...


Black and White Sands: A Bohemian Life in the Colonial Caribbean

by Elma Napier

Elma Napier's love affair with Dominica, then a British colony, began in 1932 when she turned her back on London's high society to build a home in a remote coastal village on that most mysterious and seductive...


Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

by David Cordingly

For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of...


Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire

by Andrea Stuart

In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation...


The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Nearly four decades after his death, the legend of Che Guevara has grown worldwide. In this new book, Alvaro Vargas Llosa separates the myth from the reality of Che's legacy, and shows that Che's ideals were...


Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

by Laurent Dubois

A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history

Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed...


The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

by Colin Woodard

Welcome to the Pirate Republic—the early-eighteenth-century home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates—former sailors,...


The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

by V.S. Naipaul

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait...


Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign

by Stephan Talty

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.

Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old...


Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana

by Ann Louise Bardach

From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth...


Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now

by Amy Wilentz

The earthquake has unleashed a desperation I recognize from my long education in Haiti as the desperation of extreme poverty. A few blocks away, I heard an elderly Haitian arguing with an officer of the 82nd...


Haiti After the Earthquake

by Paul Farmer

The acclaimed New York Times and IndieBound bestseller: “Farmer’s passionate book bring(s) Haiti’s appalling tragedy back to the world’s attention” —Foreign Affairs


Historical Dictionary of Haiti

by Michael R. Hall

The Historical Dictionary of Haiti covers the history of Haiti starting in 1492 with the initial discovery of the island Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic to the present day. The dictionary itself contains...


The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

by Christopher Taylor

In The Black Carib Wars, author Christopher Taylor offers the fullest, most thoroughly researched history of the Garifuna people of St. Vincent, and their uneasy conflicts and alliances with Great Britain and...


Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo

by Ned Sublette

This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers...


Island Possessed

by Katherine Dunham

Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals...