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Thursday 5 april 2018

Happy Island miracles in pictures & words

to boat to bird, Aruba truly is... One
Happy Island.”

Bird Wildlife of Aruba Hardcover by
Greg Peterson
Popular book that gives an over-
view of Aruba’s birds together with
descriptions. The book contains
full page photographs of over two
hundred species of birds taken in
Aruba’s wildlife. A checklist, for sci-
entific and educational purposes,
is at the end of the book contain-
ing the names of all bird species
that can be found in Aruba. Where
possible, the status (resident, mi-
grant, and vagrant, introduced)
and abundance (common, fairly
common, uncommon, scarce,
and rare) of the particular bird spe-
cies will be added to the checklist.
Island Life, Aruba’s Best-Kept Diary
by Rona Coster
The book is a selection of columns
written by Rona Coster between
1992 and 2004. The column ap-
peared for the first time under the
title Island Life in 1992 in The News,
a local English-language newspa-
per. The Island Life columns were
very factual and had a very strong
educational undertone. Marking
its 25th anniversary the column has
become part of Aruba’s history
and collective memory. “For those
ORANJESTAD - Books, they can it is hard not to wish that the island waves have opened secret bays who were part of history to remem-
shake your world upside down. A would never end. Then back up and stunning beaches in the shel- ber those days and for the next
good book is changing your mood the rocky East coast, where time ter of rock walls. From beach to generations and Aruba’s visitors to
like that perfect vacation spot that and the eternal embrace of the beach, point to point, cave to cliff learn about our islands valuable
energizes your spirit. Take these traditions, movements and con-
two together and what you get is tributors”, quoted by Karin Swiers,
a vacation book, a memory of the book’s editor and publisher, at
that wonderful, heavenly place Visitaruba.com.
where you spent your valuable
leisure time. Aruba Today dived We Are Aruba by Linda Reijnders
into a local book store and won- Worldly life tales of islanders that
dered which Aruba books thrill the come from 76 different countries.
visitor’s mind. Sylvia Wouters, store This is a book that tells the stories
manager at Bruna Book Store, of immigrants who make up for the
gladly helped us out and informed multicultural society that Aruba is.
us about a small selection of Hap- A world within an island, a cock-
py Island miracles in pictures and tail of people. The book is visibly
words. enriched with a picture of each
interviewed immigrant and an im-
Aruba Point to Point by Federico age of her/his country as well as a
Cabello map with the country’s location. In
“Beautiful pictures of Aruba, this the back you will find a list with all
is a perfect coffee table book to nationalities living in the island and
dream away with”, explains Sylvia. their numbers.q
The book has 192 full color pages
and more than 400 photos in a
landscape format of 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1
inches. In the words of the author:
“Slipping beyond a dynamic tour-
ist industry to discover its wild and
undeveloped beauty. Starting at
the extreme north of the island, at
California Lighthouse, I travel south
along pristine beaches of white
sand and calm, translucent seas,
passing hotels, sailboats and ship-
wrecks as I go. At the southern tip,