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Thursday 28 February 2019

Happy Island miracles in pictures & words

Modern Caribbean Flavors by Helmi Smeulders
This is thé book about the contemporary
Caribbean kitchen with healthy recipes
made with fresh and local ingredients. With
recipes for Tropical Quinoa Salad with Mango
& Pomegranate Seeds, Sweet Potato Salad,
Goat Merguez, Watermelon Sangria or Plantain
Soup, the Caribbean vibe enters your kitchen,
and you feel for a bit you are back in the tropics
again….

We Are Aruba by Linda Reijnders
Worldly life tales of islanders that come from
76 different countries. This is a book that tells
the stories of immigrants who make up for the
multicultural society that Aruba is. A world within
an island, a cocktail of people. The book is visibly
enriched with a picture of each interviewed
immigrant and an image of her/his country as
well as a map with the country’s location. In the
back you will find a list with all nationalities living
in the island and their numbers.q
ORANJESTAD - Books, they can shake your translucent seas, passing hotels, sailboats and
world upside down. A good book is changing shipwrecks as I go. At the southern tip, it is hard
your mood like that perfect vacation spot that not to wish that the island would never end.
energizes your spirit. Take these two together Then back up the rocky East coast, where time
and what you get is a vacation book, a memory and the eternal embrace of the waves have
of that wonderful, heavenly place where you opened secret bays and stunning beaches in
spent your valuable leisure time. Aruba Today the shelter of rock walls. From beach to beach,
dived into a local book store and wondered point to point, cave to cliff to boat to bird,
which Aruba books thrill the visitor’s mind. Sylvia Aruba truly is... One Happy Island.”
Wouters, store manager at Bruna Book Store,
gladly helped us out and informed us about Bird Wildlife of Aruba Hardcover by Greg
a small selection of Happy Island miracles in Peterson
pictures and words. Popular book that gives an overview of
Aruba’s birds together with descriptions.
Aruba Point to Point by Federico Cabello The book contains full page photographs of
“Beautiful pictures of Aruba, this is a perfect over two hundred species of birds taken in
coffee table book to dream away with”, Aruba’s wildlife. A checklist, for scientific and
explains Sylvia. The book has 192 full color pages educational purposes, is at the end of the
and more than 400 photos in a landscape book containing the names of all bird species
format of 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches. In the words of that can be found in Aruba. Where possible,
the author: “Slipping beyond a dynamic tourist the status (resident, migrant, and vagrant,
industry to discover its wild and undeveloped introduced) and abundance (common, fairly
beauty. Starting at the extreme north of the common, uncommon, scarce, and rare) of
island, at California Lighthouse, I travel south the particular bird species will be added to the
along pristine beaches of white sand and calm, checklist.