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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... planned . ) 12 Near Cap Haitien : the French armies were defeated in the climactic Battle of Vertieres . At its reenactment in 1954 , 150 years later , I tried to comfort the sobbing wife of the French ambassador , who seemed to be ...
... planned . ) 12 Near Cap Haitien : the French armies were defeated in the climactic Battle of Vertieres . At its reenactment in 1954 , 150 years later , I tried to comfort the sobbing wife of the French ambassador , who seemed to be ...
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... planned to return to my wife and daughters and not leave my Chevy bogota tumbled into a ravine . It seemed like a Swiss mountain hamlet . For every kilometer of wind- ing climbing road , the temperature was said to drop one degree . The ...
... planned to return to my wife and daughters and not leave my Chevy bogota tumbled into a ravine . It seemed like a Swiss mountain hamlet . For every kilometer of wind- ing climbing road , the temperature was said to drop one degree . The ...
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... planned to bring my fifteen - year - old son , Ari , to a place I had previously visited with his sisters and his brother . It was his turn ; he was especially interested in taping voodoo ceremonies and Haitian percussion . Other ...
... planned to bring my fifteen - year - old son , Ari , to a place I had previously visited with his sisters and his brother . It was his turn ; he was especially interested in taping voodoo ceremonies and Haitian percussion . Other ...
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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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