Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... Dieudonné Lamothe , with whom I ran in the Haitian mountains , was training and turning into a winning competi- tor , with some Caribbean championships to his credit . And the slopes of Kenscoff provide some of the most beautiful ...
... Dieudonné Lamothe , with whom I ran in the Haitian mountains , was training and turning into a winning competi- tor , with some Caribbean championships to his credit . And the slopes of Kenscoff provide some of the most beautiful ...
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... Dieudonné Lamothe , lifting his arms in a victory sign . When Lamothe made negative history at Montreal , he was run- ning without a real training program and in a strange northern place - he had never been abroad before ; without a ...
... Dieudonné Lamothe , lifting his arms in a victory sign . When Lamothe made negative history at Montreal , he was run- ning without a real training program and in a strange northern place - he had never been abroad before ; without a ...
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... Dieudonné Lamothe , the champion runner , and the friend I had persuaded to fly down from New York to meet me , who said , " Okay , I see what you mean . " I took deep breaths , and there was still eucalyptus . I looked for the Belgian ...
... Dieudonné Lamothe , the champion runner , and the friend I had persuaded to fly down from New York to meet me , who said , " Okay , I see what you mean . " I took deep breaths , and there was still eucalyptus . I looked for the Belgian ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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