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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... Miami. Dîle de la Tortue : the former buccaneer island where a Texas company tried to make an independent Forêt des Pins : where I ran with the champion Haitian marathoners . in with the Tortue Air Force . ) Port - de - Paix : where I ...
... Miami. Dîle de la Tortue : the former buccaneer island where a Texas company tried to make an independent Forêt des Pins : where I ran with the champion Haitian marathoners . in with the Tortue Air Force . ) Port - de - Paix : where I ...
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... Miami , 200 miles from Puerto Rico , fifty miles from Jamaica , of the endlessly amazing Repub- lic of Haiti , the left - hand end of the island of Hispaniola . For sheer improbability nothing can touch this francophone black State ...
... Miami , 200 miles from Puerto Rico , fifty miles from Jamaica , of the endlessly amazing Repub- lic of Haiti , the left - hand end of the island of Hispaniola . For sheer improbability nothing can touch this francophone black State ...
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... Miami ! To this day it is said in all seriousness in Port - au - Prince that Papa Doc procured the assassination of his brother - President John Kennedy by sticking pins in a voodoo doll . To the age - old oppression of superstition has ...
... Miami ! To this day it is said in all seriousness in Port - au - Prince that Papa Doc procured the assassination of his brother - President John Kennedy by sticking pins in a voodoo doll . To the age - old oppression of superstition has ...
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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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