Ponvert katharine steele (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. A small history of a sugar plantation named Hormiguero in Las Villas province, Cuba (formerly Santa Clara province) written by a family member from New York who used to visit. The author starts with a brief genealogy of the inter-related Yrady, Terry and Ponvert families. She then discusses the growth of the Ponvert family in Cuba and the growth of the Hormiguero sugar mill and plantation they owned. In short chapters told from a personal perspective, she reviews the continued life of the plantation and the island in the decades leading up to its sale in 1952. Told throughout according to the perspective of her family and the people she knew. Contains a family tree before the first chapter, and an eight-page black & white photo section. Several pages left blank at the end for "notes." No dust jacket; book in basically very good shape except that: corners are bumped with small tears to the cover cloth; the front cover has several small stains; there is a liquid stain to the bottom corner photo pages; and several pages slightly dog-eared on the bottom corner, perhaps from the book being dropped or badly shelved in the past. 6 x 8½ inches, 110 pages.…