1947 Sambumbia: Discovery of the Dominican Republic First Ed HCDJ Page Cooper

Description: 1947 Sambumbia: Discovery of the Dominican Republic First Ed HCDJ Page Cooper_________________________________________ Sambumbia: A Discovery of the Dominican Republic, the Modern Hispanolaby Page CooperPublished by The Caribbean Library (1947) Condition:Excellent++ 1st Edition Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket! NO MARKS! The binding is tight and all 203 pages within are bright white with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, RIPS, TEARS, BENDS OR FOLDS. The covers are near perfect! The dust jacket is in Very Good condition but does have some ancient, taped repairs, as can be seen in my photos. The dust jacket is now inside of a Mylar cover to keep this beautiful gem in the best possible condition for generations to come. You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:SAMBUMBIA is a rich stew of the Cibao, the fabulous plain in which Columbus hoped to find his India. In it is a little of almost everything that grows in the Dominican Republic, and when one has eaten it he has entered into the life of the people. This book is Sambumbia in the sense that it too epitomizes the Dominicans in their everyday affairs, as they work and dream and play. It does not concern itself with politics, or history, although the Dominicans are so conscious of their history that one cannot help being intimate with it. Rather, it is a picture of the island of Columbus as it is today (in 1947) and the people who are his heirs. In these pages we meet the gracious, half-blind old archbishop, the Primate of the West Indies, who works at an enormous desk in a bare room behind the cathedral, attended by a barefoot little girl, who guides his hand to the proper spot for his signature; and the fisherman who lives under the bridge and keeps his three patched fish hooks in a talcum powder can. We talk with the judge who is making a new code of laws, to supersede the outworn Napoleonic Code, and we see the shoe of the U.S. Marine preserved in the museum of Ciudad Trujillo as a symbol of the invasion that brought the Dominicans good roads and a bitter determination to modernize their land. We travel from the beautiful modern Caribbean capital of Ciudad Trujillo across the royal plain of the Cibao to the northern coast, to Puerto Plata, the banana port, and La Isabela, the lovely hill-rimmed bay where Columbus landed. We climb the Cordilleras and dance in the ancient city of Santiago de los Caballeros with a woman whose grandmother’s cattle once fattened on the lush banks of the Yaqui River and whose father was one of the nation’s patriots. We make a rediscovery of the land Columbus loved and also an intimate acquaintance with a fascinating next door neighbor. Copyright © 2018-2024 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.

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