Name: To Cuba and Back (en Inglés)
SKU: 60200271
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Author: Dana, Richard Henry
ISBN: 9781979843881

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Richard Henry Dana

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

122

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x0.7 cm

Peso

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9781979843881

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

To Cuba and Back (en Inglés)

Richard Henry Dana (Autor) · Createspace · Tapa Blanda

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The steamer is to sail at one P.M.; and, by half-past twelve, her decks are full, and the mud and snow of the pier are well trodden by men and horses. Coaches drive down furiously, and nervous passengers put their heads out to see if the steamer is off before her time; and on the decks, and in the gangways, inexperienced passengers run against everybody, and mistake the engineer for the steward, and come up the same stairs they go down, without knowing it. In the dreary snow, the newspaper vendors cry the papers, and the book vendors thrust yellow covers into your face-"Reading for the voyage, sir-five hundred pages, close print!" And that being rejected, they reverse the process of the Sibyl-with "Here's another, sir, one thousand pages, double columns." The great beam of the engine moves slowly up and down, and the black hull sways at its fasts. A motley group are the passengers. Shivering Cubans, exotics that have taken slight root in the hothouses of the Fifth Avenue, are to brave a few days of sleet and cold at sea, for the palm trees and mangoes, the cocoas and orange trees, they will be sitting under in six days, at farthest. There are Yankee shipmasters going out to join their "cotton wagons" at New Orleans and Mobile, merchants pursuing a commerce that knows no rest and no locality; confirmed invalids advised to go to Cuba to die under mosquito nets and be buried in a Potter's Field; and other invalids wisely enough avoiding our March winds; and here and there a mere vacationmaker, like myself.