To Cuba and Back (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - Richard Henry Dana

To Cuba and Back (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Richard Henry Dana

  • Release Date: 2011-09-20
  • Genre: Travel in the United States

Description

In To Cuba and Back, an account of  what he called a “vacation voyage” in 1859, Dana tells of touring Havana and a sugar plantation; attending a bullfight; visiting churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons; and investigating the impact on Cuban society of slavery and autocratic Spanish rule.