List Price: $18.95
Size 5x8
Format: Paperback
Category: History/U.S./Cuba
ISBN 1-933698-07-1
ISBN 13 978-1-933698-07-6

Original publication date: 1860
Richard Henry Dana: 1815 - 1882

To Cuba and Back

During the 19th century, Cuba was an integral part of the US expansion dream. In 1859 Richard Henry  Dana, internationally renowned author of the seafaring classic, Two Years Before the Mast, set sail for the island nation. Dana captures the sights, sounds, and smells of a country in the lucid style for which he is best known. His tales of Cuban hotels, cigar smoking, bull fighting, slavery, and religion are acutely observed. Dana, active in the anti-slavery movement in the United States, provides absorbing accounts of sugar plantations and the economics of slave labor, along with the tumultuous lasting effects of the Spanish colonial rule. It’s from his day to day encounters with the Cuban people that Dana explores the truth of this beautiful, complex nation. This is a travelogue of the highest order; one that embraces culture and custom while displaying an uncanny sense of what was to come to this tropical land.

About the Author

Richard Henry Dana was born in Massachusetts in 1815. After his shipboard adventures, he attended Harvard, became a lawyer and an expert in maritime law, as well as a prominent abolitionist. Dana was a life-long advocate for civil rights for every man. He was personally acquainted with many of the important literary figures of his day, including Hawthrone and Emerson. Dana died in 1882 while visiting Rome.