Havana Storm

• Author : Clive Cussler,Dirk Cussler
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 28 October 2014

Renowned marine adventurer Dirk Pitt returns to stem a toxic outbreak in the thrilling novel from the grand master of adventure and #1 New York Times–bestselling author. While investigating an unexplained poisonous spill in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Dirk Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous—a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt’s children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own,

• Author : Clive Cussler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 November 2015

While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous - a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure.

• Author : Clive Cussler,Dirk Cussler
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 06 November 2014

Dirk Pitt returns in Havana Storm, the thrilling new novel from the grand master of adventure and No.1 New York Times bestselling author, Clive Cussler. While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous - a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone

• Author : Clive Cussler,Dirk Cussler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 November 2015

The Caribbean. Something is happening in the coastal waters off Cuba. Toxic mercury plumes are killing wildlife and fishermen are mysteriously vanishing. But what is behind it? When NUMA launches an investigation, they find mysterious holes in the seabed. Someone or something is drilling into the crust - and they don't care what or whom they harm. And the Caribbean is a really big place to hide what you're up to. But if anyone can find out who's behind this,

• Author : Clive Cussler,Dirk Cussler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 July 2021

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Dirk Pitt NovelWhile investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea, Dirk Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous: a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile his children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are chasing an Aztec treasure -- which brings them both to Cuba as well, and squarely into harm's way. But the three of them have been in desperate situations before . . .

• Author : Shawn William Miller
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 27 August 2007

A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the

• Author : Willie Drye
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 01 August 2019

In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. In late

• Author : Clive Cussler,Dirk Cussler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 October 2016

• Author : Mark Kurlansky
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 07 March 2017

A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food;

• Author : Vicki Huddleston
• Publisher : Abrams
• Release : 13 March 2018

Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations between the two countries broke off. A thaw came in 1977, with the opening of a de facto embassy in Havana, the US Interests Section, where Huddleston would later serve. In her

• Author : Alfredo José Estrada
• Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
• Release : 08 March 2016

Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero. Deeply personal and affecting, Havana is the accessible and complete story of the city for the history buff and armchair

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 July 2021

• Author : Mike Pride
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 01 December 2020

A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, “there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.C.” Montgomery swept away 126 men. Storm over Key West is a little-known story woven of many threads, but its

• Author : Justus D. Doenecke
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 25 July 2021

Prominent historian Justus Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the U.S. decision to participate in World War II.

• Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 July 1890