Belize :
Land of the Free
by the Carib Sea
Author: Thor Janson
Published: 2000

Book Description: a book displaying Belizean culture through pictures. Includes detailed photographs of Belize City, district village life, the Cayes, native wildlife, and much more!

Belize
Retirement Guide:
How to Live in a
Tropical Paradise on $450 a Month
by Bill Gray, Claire Gray
Published: 4th edition 1999

Book Description: A how-to guidebook written by an American couple who retired to Belize. It details many of the benefits Belize has to offer North American retirees, including: year-round warm weather, world class diving, and sportfishing. It outlines Belize's low cost of living and inflation rate. It gives information on free medical care and government land give aways.

Cuba Diaries:
An American
Housewife in Havana
Author: Isadora Tattlin (Author)
Published: 2003

Book Description: Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband’s work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990s, she resolved to keep a detailed diary of her time there, recording her daily experiences as a wife, mother, and foreigner in a land of contraband. The result is a striking, rare glimpse into a tiny country of enormous splendor and squalor.

Though the Tattlins are provided with a well-staffed Havana mansion, the store shelves are bare. On the streets, beggars plead for soap, not coins. A vet with few real medical supplies operates on a carved mahogany coffee table in a Louis XIV–style drawing room. The people adore festivity, but Christmas trees are banned. And when Isadora hosts a dinner party whose guest list includes Fidel Castro himself, she observes the ultimate contradiction at the very heart of Cuba.

Vividly capturing Cuba’s simultaneously appalling and enchanting essence, Cuba Diaries casts an irresistible spell and lifts the enigma of an island that is trapped in time, but not in spirit.

Haiti in Focus:
A Guide to the
People, Politics, and Culture
(In Focus Guides)
Author: Charles Arthur
Published: 2002

Book Description: During two centuries of independence from colonial rule, Haiti has developed into a society quite distinct from those found in the rest of the region. Hollywood-derived images of black magic and Graham Greene-inspired conceptions of a "nightmare republic" do scant justice to the reality of life for those who make up the third largest population in the Caribbean.

How did the slaves of France's most prosperous colony defeat the armies of Napoleon, Spain, and Britain? Why did the U.S. occupation of 1915-34 fail to establish a plantation economy in Haiti? Haiti in Focus is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country.

The guide explores the land, history and politics, economy, society and people, culture and environment, and includes tips on where to go and what to see.