Dimensions
135 x 215 x 18mm
It is an island more than 1000 kilometres long and was the
sixth in the world (before its colonial master Spain) to have a
national rail network. Cuba today feels like a nation at the
end of a long, hard war. Peter Millar jumps aboard a railway
system that was once the pride of Latin America and is now a
crippled casualty case to undertake a railway odessey the
length of Cuba in the dying days of the Castro regime.
Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, he
travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories
and political opinions, to the far end of the island where he
meets a more modern blot of American history, the
Guantanamo naval base and detention centre.
