Caribbean category: 2932 books

New full color edition! Inspired by memories of her father and her own experiences on the islands, Ramin Ganeshram introduces readers to the cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago, where African, Indian, Chinese, Syrian and British culinary influences come together in a unique blend. This new full color...

What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than...

The authors - one of whom is a Dominican Republic native - share intimate knowledge of this island nation. Virgin beaches, 16th-century Spanish ruins, the Caribbean's highest mountain, exotic wildlife and vast forest reserves will lure you here. And this book will show you around. Immense detail on...

Whether you want to dive in and explore a world underwater or just relax on the white sand, paradise is yours with Moon Aruba. Inside you'll find: Strategic itineraries covering the best beaches, the outback, and budget-conscious travel, with ideas for honeymooners, scuba divers, families, and...

Cuba is a country of contradictions: timeworn but still oh-so-cool, where post-communist ideology beats to Afro-Cuban rhythms and strong mojitos. And Cuba is on the brink of big changes. A heady mix of sun-drenched beaches and exhilarating, photogenic streetlife, Cuba is the most mesmerising of Caribbean...

Take side trips with a well-traveled writer who will show you places the tourists never see. In this volume -- second entry in The You Can Go There Travel Series -- you travel abroad. These fact-filled articles share inexpensive excursions to a glacier in the Italian Alps, a walled city in France,...

The Dominican Republic is the most visited country in the Caribbean and, according to CNN, the second-happiest place on the planet. However, most of its workers make less than fifteen dollars a day, it has around two million stateless people, and 70 percent of its schools do not offer students safe...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Colombia has finally shed its former reputation and is now fulfilling its potential as one of the world's most interesting and unique travel destinations. Safer than ever, Colombia is home to whitewashed colonial towns, a staggeringly large amount of bio-diversity,...

Here is the best guide to these sparsely populated islands. Largely untouched by tourism, they have few high-rise hotels, no time-share condos and no casinos. What they do have is unparalleled beauty, with small picturesque hotels set on beachfronts, in ancient fortresses, in the ruins of sugar mills...

Le chapitre Îles Vierges américaines du guide Ulysse Explorez les Caraïbes présente les îles Vierges américaines avec leurs principaux attraits tels que St. Croix et le St. Croix’s Heritage Trail, Christiansted et son Fort Christiansvaern, Frederiksted et son Fort Frederik, et ailleurs dans...

Le chapitre Antigua-et-Barbuda du guide Ulysse Explorez les Caraïbes présente Antigua-et-Barbuda. Pour attirer les visiteurs, Antigua compte sur la capitale St. John’s, au riche héritage colonial, la superbe baie d’English Harbour, le Nelson’s Dockyard National Park, le point de vue de Shirley...

L'île de Cuba, la plus grande de l'archipel des Caraïbes (110 922 km2), occupe une position stratégique à 77 km de Haïti et à 140 km de la Jamaïque. Longue de 1 200 km – alors que sa largeur varie de 32 à 145 km –, Cuba est très proche du continent, des États-Unis et du Mexique …

Enough books have been written about Cuba to fill an entire library, but few take the approach Chen Lizra does with "My Seductive Cuba." Deeply personal and always engaging, Lizra - an Israeli-born dance instructor and entrepreneur now living in Canada - fuses history and politics with...