# Cuba: The Land Of Miracles

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- Book: [Cuba: The Land Of Miracles](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-smith/cuba-the-land-of-miracles) ([Cuba: The Land Of Miracles.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-smith/cuba-the-land-of-miracles.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-smith)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-967-0
- Published: 2005-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, and his search for the real Cuba inevitably becomes a search for Fidel Castro too. Before meeting his quarry, Smith travels extensively through the 'land of miracles' in an old American automobile. His highly-personalised account features a bloody initiation into a voodoo-like cult, dining on giant rat, and checking into the Love Hotel. And he goes on manoeuvres in the Everglades with armed, but not especially competent, Cuban exiles dreaming of a second Bay of Pigs. With disarming wit and considerable insight, Stephen Smith investigates a country where communism and voodoo coexist, and where the influence of its leader of forty years continues to throw a long shadow.