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Monday 25 SepteMber 2017
Happy Island Miracles in Pictures and Words

ORANJESTAD - Books, they at the extreme north of the peared for the first time
can shake your world up- island, at California Light- under the title Island Life in
side down. A good book house, I travel south along 1992 in The News, a local
can change your mood pristine beaches of white English-language newspa-
like that perfect vaca- sand and calm, translu- per. The Island Life columns
tion spot that energizes cent seas, passing hotels, were very factual and had
your spirit. Take these two sailboats and shipwrecks a very strong education-
together and what you as I go. At the southern al undertone. Marking its
get is a vacation book, a tip, it is hard not to wish 25th anniversary the col-
memory of that wonderful, that the island would nev- umn has become part of
heavenly place where you er end. Then back up the Aruba’s history and collec-
spent your valuable leisure rocky East coast, where tive memory. “For those
time. Aruba Today dived time and the eternal em- who were part of history
into a local book store brace of the waves have to remember those days
and wondered which Aru- opened secret bays and and for the next genera-
ba books thrill the visitor’s stunning beaches in the tions and Aruba’s visitors
mind. Sylvia Wouters, store shelter of rock walls. From to learn about our islands
manager at Bruna Book beach to beach, point to valuable traditions, move-
Store, gladly helped us out Federico Cabello photos in a landscape for-
and informed us about a “Beautiful pictures of Aru- mat of 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inch-
small selection of Happy ba, this is a perfect cof- es. In the words of the au-
Island miracles in pictures fee table book to dream thor: “Slipping beyond a
and words. away with”, explains Sylvia. dynamic tourist industry to
The book has 192 full color discover its wild and unde-
‘Aruba Point to Point’ by pages and more than 400 veloped beauty. Starting

point, cave to cliff to boat ments and contributors”,
to bird, Aruba truly is... One quoted by Karin Swiers, the
Happy Island.” book’s editor and publish-
er, at Visitaruba.com.
‘Bird Wildlife of Aruba’
Hardcover by Greg Peter- ‘We Are Aruba’ by Linda
son Reijnders
Popular book that gives an Worldly life tales of island-
overview of Aruba’s birds ers that come from 76 dif-
together with descriptions. ferent countries. This is a
The book contains full page book that tells the stories
photographs of over two of immigrants who make
hundred species of birds up for the multicultural so-
taken in Aruba’s wildlife. A ciety that Aruba is. A world
checklist, for scientific and within an island, a cocktail
educational purposes, is at of people. The book is vis-
the end of the book con- ibly enriched with a picture
taining the names of all of each interviewed im-
bird species that can be migrant and an image of
found in Aruba. Where pos- her/his country as well as a
sible, the status (resident, map with the country’s lo-
migrant, vagrant, intro- cation. In the back you will
duced) and abundance find a list with all nationali-
(common, fairly common, ties living in the island and
uncommon, scarce, and their numbers.
rare) of the particular bird
species will be added to ‘Aruba Monuments Guide’
the checklist. by Michel Bakker and Olga
van der Klooster
‘Island Life, Aruba’s Best- Aruba! Everyone knows this
Kept Diary’ by Rona Coster tropical island in the sun
The book is a selection of with pearly white beaches
columns written by Rona and palm trees swaying in
Coster between 1992 and the trade winds. But there’s
2004. The column ap-
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