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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... Port - au - Prince to Jacmel . ( I had done no actual roadwork , but wrote about the pretty seaside village of Jacmel with its colonial buildings . ) Gonâives : where the successful revolt against the Duvaliers began ; where I showed ...
... Port - au - Prince to Jacmel . ( I had done no actual roadwork , but wrote about the pretty seaside village of Jacmel with its colonial buildings . ) Gonâives : where the successful revolt against the Duvaliers began ; where I showed ...
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... Port - au - Prince , our desire not to go into exile , the Chief of Staff's patriotic will to preserve good relations between two great Caribbean powers . ་ ་ HE THOUSAND or so American residents , mostly located in Tthe capital , fell ...
... Port - au - Prince , our desire not to go into exile , the Chief of Staff's patriotic will to preserve good relations between two great Caribbean powers . ་ ་ HE THOUSAND or so American residents , mostly located in Tthe capital , fell ...
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... Port - au - Prince , an exalted old man began to shout , " I made the sky . Me , I made the moon and the stars . " A woman giggled , bent over her basket of Kenscoff strawberries . " He's crazy ! " The man pointed his finger at her ...
... Port - au - Prince , an exalted old man began to shout , " I made the sky . Me , I made the moon and the stars . " A woman giggled , bent over her basket of Kenscoff strawberries . " He's crazy ! " The man pointed his finger at her ...
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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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