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Happy Island miracles

in pictures & words

ORANJESTAD - Books, they secret bays and stunning
can shake your world up- beaches in the shelter of
side down. A good book is rock walls. From beach
changing your mood like to beach, point to point,
that perfect vacation spot cave to cliff to boat to bird,
that energizes your spirit. Aruba truly is... One Happy
Take these two together Island.”
and what you get is a va-
cation book, a memory of Bird Wildlife of Aruba Hard-
that wonderful, heavenly cover by Greg Peterson
place where you spent Popular book that gives an
your valuable leisure time. overview of Aruba’s birds
Aruba Today dived into a together with descriptions.
local book store and won- The book contains full page
dered which Aruba books photographs of over two
thrill the visitor’s mind. Syl- hundred species of birds
via Wouters, store manager taken in Aruba’s wildlife. A
at Bruna Book Store, gladly checklist, for scientific and TOLL FREE 1 866 978 61 92
helped us out and informed educational purposes, is at + 297 699 29 79
us about a small selection the end of the book con-
of Happy Island miracles in taining the names of all bird FOLLOW US ON: @arubaslife
pictures and words. species that can be found info@arubaslife.com | www.arubaslife.com
in Aruba. Where possible,
Aruba Point to Point by Fed- the status (resident, mi- for the next generations
erico Cabello grant, and vagrant, intro- and Aruba’s visitors to learn
“Beautiful pictures of Aru- duced) and abundance about our islands valuable
ba, this is a perfect cof- (common, fairly common, traditions, movements and
fee table book to dream uncommon, scarce, and contributors”, quoted by
away with”, explains Sylvia. rare) of the particular bird Karin Swiers, the book’s edi-
The book has 192 full color species will be added to tor and publisher, at Visita-
pages and more than 400 the checklist. ruba.com.
photos in a landscape for-
mat of 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inch- Island Life, Aruba’s Best- We Are Aruba by Linda
es. In the words of the au- Kept Diary by Rona Coster Reijnders
thor: “Slipping beyond a The book is a selection of Worldly life tales of islanders
dynamic tourist industry to columns written by Rona that come from 76 differ-
discover its wild and unde- Coster between 1992 and ent countries. This is a book
veloped beauty. Starting 2004. The column ap- that tells the stories of immi-
at the extreme north of the peared for the first time grants who make up for the
island, at California Light- under the title Island Life in multicultural society that
house, I travel south along 1992 in The News, a local Aruba is.
pristine beaches of white English-language newspa- A world within an island,
sand and calm, translu- per. The Island Life columns a cocktail of people. The
cent seas, passing hotels, were very factual and had book is visibly enriched with
sailboats and shipwrecks as a very strong educational a picture of each inter-
I go. At the southern tip, it undertone. Marking its 25th viewed immigrant and an
is hard not to wish that the anniversary the column image of her/his country
island would never end. has become part of Aru- as well as a map with the
Then back up the rocky ba’s history and collective country’s location. In the
East coast, where time and memory. “For those who back you will find a list with
the eternal embrace of were part of history to re- all nationalities living in the
the waves have opened member those days and island and their numbers.q