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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... lived in the north , near Cap Haitien , which at that time had no good road link with Port- au - Prince . I gave him some money and sent him off . I wondered if we would ever see him again . In a few days he came trudging through the ...
... lived in the north , near Cap Haitien , which at that time had no good road link with Port- au - Prince . I gave him some money and sent him off . I wondered if we would ever see him again . In a few days he came trudging through the ...
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... lived in Haiti in 1953-54 , the population was an antheap pile of 32 million souls crammed into a land the size of Maryland , crumpled in God's hand , terraced and desperately tilled on the steeps . The population was now 6 million ...
... lived in Haiti in 1953-54 , the population was an antheap pile of 32 million souls crammed into a land the size of Maryland , crumpled in God's hand , terraced and desperately tilled on the steeps . The population was now 6 million ...
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... lived a little more on the brink . Laugh , clown , but don't forget the tragic double face . Since a new management had come in at the Grand Hotel Oloffson , Aubie was no longer King of the Terrace . Many of the minglers of old were ...
... lived a little more on the brink . Laugh , clown , but don't forget the tragic double face . Since a new management had come in at the Grand Hotel Oloffson , Aubie was no longer King of the Terrace . Many of the minglers of old were ...
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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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