From the cover:
Four months of travel in Cuba inspired this frank, personal account of the island's culture and other aspects of the Cuban revolution. In Part I, "Background to the new Cuba," Lee Chadwick provides a clear and valuable historical setting for her own observations. The book is filled with interesting often humorous glimpses of island life, from Sombrero making to a People's Court session, from children's comics to cattle breeding, from pineapple farming to traditional cuisine and Sundays in Havana. Ms. Chadwick investigates educational experiments and racial intermixing and is particularly curious about the life of Cuba's young people. As a writer for children, she was privileged to visit schools and work-study programs throughout the island.
Lee Chadwick:
Lee Bosence was born in 1909 in Battersea, London, one of eight children. At the beginning of the First World War her mother took the two youngest children to Whyteleaf in Surrey, which was then a very rural area. A sense of freedom and a love of wildlife which was established in her childhood were to become the driving influences of her life. She graduated in English and Psychology at Bedford College in Regent spark, London. In 1937, after periods of teaching in both France and England she came to work at Summerhill School in Leiston. Here she met Paxton `Chad' Chadwick (see separate entry), who was teaching art. Lee then joined the Communist Party in 1937. (...) Chad worked as a wildlife illustrator for Penguin books. After Chad died in 1961, Cassell, the publisher, invited Lee to complete the Pantoscope series of educational paperbacks he had begun. Her research into aspects of fishing and fruit industries gave her the confidence to begin her own literary career. Subsequently she wrote a number of documentary books embracing a range of topics from the future of agriculture to lighthouses and lightships. Research for these took her from Rome to Cuba and to most of the lighthouses in the British Isles.
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