Book Description
Puerto Rico Magnfico! is a large-format, photographic-essay, coffee-table book about the island of Puerto Rico. Through photographs, maps, and text, it covers Puerto Rico's history, culture, people, nature, geography, and scenery. The book features a special emphasis on aerial photography, and a "then-and-now" chapter is devoted to comparing historic and modern scenes of the island.


About the Author
Photojournalist Roger LaBrucheries experience with Puerto Rico and the Caribbean began in 1969, when he spent several months undergoing training for the Peace Corps in Ponce, on Puerto Ricos southern coast. Since that initial encounter, he has lived and travelled extensively in the region, writing and photographing nine books on the islands of the Caribbean and Bermuda, as well as a book on Hawaii. Among those nine volumes are two previous best-selling documentary books on Puerto Rico itself: Images of Puerto Rico (published in 1983), and Puerto Rico, Borinquen Querida, which was published in 1991 to celebrate the fifth centennial of Puerto Ricos discovery. Given his formal education as an economist and lawyer at Harvard and Stanford Universities, it is hardly surprising that his works are as widely acclaimed for their commitment to the thoroughness and accuracy of their texts as they are for their stunning visual presentations. In addition to the present volume and his other two books on Puerto Rico, Mr. LaBrucheries books include: Bermuda, A World Apart; Hawaiian World, Hawaiian Heart; A Barbados Journey; and Imgenes de Santo Domingo.

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