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Monday 22 January 2018
Happy Island miracles in pictures & words

hundred species of birds
taken in Aruba’s wildlife.
A checklist, for scientific
Books, they can shake your and educational purposes,
world upside down. A good is at the end of the book
book is changing your containing the names of
mood like that perfect va- all bird species that can be
cation spot that energizes found in Aruba.
your spirit. Take these two Where possible, the status
together and what you get (resident, migrant, vagrant,
is a vacation book, a mem- introduced) and abun-
ory of that wonderful, heav- dance (common, fairly
enly place where you spent common, uncommon,
your valuable leisure time. scarce, and rare) of the
Aruba Today dived into a particular bird species will
local book store and won- be added to the checklist.
dered which Aruba books
thrill the visitor’s mind. Syl- Island Life, Aruba’s Best-
via Wouters, store manager Kept Diary by Rona Coster
at Bruna Book Store, gladly The book is a selection of
helped us out and informed columns written by Rona
us about a small selection Coster between 1992 and
of Happy Island miracles in 2004. T
pictures and words. he column appeared for
the first time under the title
Island Life in 1992 in The

Aruba Point to Point by Fed- News, a local English-lan-
erico Cabello guage newspaper.
The Island Life columns
“Beautiful pictures of Aru-
ba, this is a perfect cof- were very factual and had
a very strong educational
fee table book to dream
away with”, explains Sylvia. undertone.
Marking its 25th anniversary
The book has 192 full color
pages and more than 400 the column has become
part of Aruba’s history and
photos in a landscape for-
mat of 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches. collective memory.
“For those who were part
In the words of the au-
thor: “Slipping beyond a of history to remember
those days and for the next
dynamic tourist industry to
discover its wild and unde- generations and Aruba’s
visitors to learn about our
veloped beauty.
Starting at the extreme islands valuable traditions,
movements and contribu-
north of the island, at Cali-
fornia Lighthouse, I travel tors”, quoted by Karin Swi-
ers, the book’s editor and
south along pristine beach-
es of white sand and calm, publisher, at Visitaruba.
com.
translucent seas, passing
hotels, sailboats and ship- We Are Aruba by Linda
wrecks as I go. Reijnders
At the southern tip, it is Worldly life tales of islanders
hard not to wish that the
island would never end. that come from 76 different
countries.
Then back up the rocky
East coast, where time and This is a book that tells the
stories of immigrants who
the eternal embrace of
the waves have opened make up for the multicul-
tural society that Aruba is.
secret bays and stunning
beaches in the shelter of A world within an island, a
cocktail of people.
rock walls.
From beach to beach, The book is visibly enriched
with a picture of each in-
point to point, cave to cliff
to boat to bird, Aruba truly terviewed immigrant and
an image of her/his coun-
is... One Happy Island.”
try as well as a map with
Bird Wildlife of Aruba Hard- the country’s location.
cover by Greg Peterson In the back you will find a
list with all nationalities liv-
Popular book that gives an
overview of Aruba’s birds ing in the island and their
numbers.
together with descriptions.
The book contains full page
photographs of over two
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