from The West Indies and the Spanish Main / Anthony Trollope
"Letter XLVIII" from Letters of a traveller / William Cullen Bryant
"Among the mahogany forests of Cuba" / Walter D. Wilcox
from Ports of the sun / Eleanor Early
from Havana Manana : a guide to Cuba and the Cubans / Consuelo Hermer and Marjorie May
"Havana then and now" / Robert Stone
from Looking for history : dispatches from Latin America / Alma Guillermoprieto
From Ay, Cuba! / Andrei Codrescu
"The flesh, the bones, and the beating heart" / Kimi Eisele
from Cuba libre / Elmore Leonard
"The clan of no-name" / Stephen Crane
from Our man in Havana / Graham Greene
from "The great blue river" / Ernest Hemingway
"Batting against Castro" / Jim Shepard
from Cuba diaries : an American housewife in Havana / Isadora Tattlin
"Havana nights" / Langston Hughes
"Visita" and "in 1985 I met Nicolas Guillen" / Jayne Cortez
From an interview with Allen Young in Gay sunshine / Allen Ginsberg
"Santeria : an alternative pulse" / Elizabeth Hanly
from Cuba and the night / Pico Iyer
from Trading with the enemy : a Yankee travels through Castro's Cuba / Tom Miller
"Adventure divas" / Holly Morris
from A naturalist in Cuba / Thomas Barbour
from The mambo kings play songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos
"In the absence of love" / Ruth Behar
"Simple life" / Cristina Garcia
"Trece" from Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy / Carlos Eire
"Charada China" / Ricardo Pau-Llosa
"Repairing things" / Rosa Lowinger
from The Indian chronicles / Jose Barreiro.
