Word: tortugas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TORTUGA...
Literary sea voyages often carry a heavy ballast of allegory. The potential, after all, is readymade; it requires no great leap of imagination to see a ship as a tiny world adrift in eternity. Far Tortuga shuns such metaphysics in favor of hard surfaces. Avers is no Captain Ahab, nor is the Eden a ship of fools. The captain and his crew simply make up an exotic collection of drifters, drunks, petty criminals and indefatigable optimists, worth knowing, this novel implies, for their own sakes...
...Haiti is an exotic and unique vacation land, there are signs of change. Outside money, particularly in tourist-related businesses such as ho-telbuilding, is coming into the country at the rate of $60 million a year. In the most ambitious of the new proj ects, the island of Tortuga, off the northern coast, is being developed into a resort that will include 13 hotels, condominiums, private homes and a large airport. There are also a number of heady proposals to build expensive new roads to Haiti's southshore beaches, which are as beautiful...
...leading Texas law firms, Houston's Vinson, Elkins and Searls. Estimates of his earnings ran as high as $800,000 a year. He was already a wealthy man with an estimated worth of between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000. He owns the $300,000 Tortuga Ranch in Southwest Texas. On his 10,000-acre Floresville ranch, complete with two-story mansion, swimming pool and landing strip, he raises a couple of hundred head of cattle...