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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... Kenscoff and saw Port - au - Prince extended along the Caribbean Sea , ships in the harbor , sailboats made of burned - out logs and random swatches of fabric , mists , charcoal smoke hovering over the dense smudged slum of La Saline ...
... Kenscoff and saw Port - au - Prince extended along the Caribbean Sea , ships in the harbor , sailboats made of burned - out logs and random swatches of fabric , mists , charcoal smoke hovering over the dense smudged slum of La Saline ...
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... Kenscoff , descended from both slaves and slave- holders , brooded continually upon the ironies of their destiny on this island cast loose in the Caribbean Sea . Monsieur Dissaint , the school- master , looked at his knuckles and said ...
... Kenscoff , descended from both slaves and slave- holders , brooded continually upon the ironies of their destiny on this island cast loose in the Caribbean Sea . Monsieur Dissaint , the school- master , looked at his knuckles and said ...
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... Kenscoff , this mountain village with its rapid streams , intense cultivation of good things for the table , chatter of market women washing their vegetables , their clothes , and themselves , smell of eucalyptus overhead and onions and ...
... Kenscoff , this mountain village with its rapid streams , intense cultivation of good things for the table , chatter of market women washing their vegetables , their clothes , and themselves , smell of eucalyptus overhead and onions and ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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