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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... tonton macoutes in charge , provided good training with special expertise in tropical diseases . What was called " malig- nant malaria " kept me bedridden for almost two months . My elder daughter , Ann , then four years old , used to ...
... tonton macoutes in charge , provided good training with special expertise in tropical diseases . What was called " malig- nant malaria " kept me bedridden for almost two months . My elder daughter , Ann , then four years old , used to ...
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... tonton macoutes , " using a term from Creole which means Uncle Knapsack or bogeymen , devils who steal souls , stuff them into their bags , carry them into oblivion . These bogeymen came out of folklore into history . The macoutes were ...
... tonton macoutes , " using a term from Creole which means Uncle Knapsack or bogeymen , devils who steal souls , stuff them into their bags , carry them into oblivion . These bogeymen came out of folklore into history . The macoutes were ...
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... tonton macoutes were being gently reigned in . Lacking a taste for terror and torture , Jean - Claude preferred to play with his toy cars and his motorcycles . His father , who liked to be thought the incarnation of Baron Samedi ...
... tonton macoutes were being gently reigned in . Lacking a taste for terror and torture , Jean - Claude preferred to play with his toy cars and his motorcycles . His father , who liked to be thought the incarnation of Baron Samedi ...
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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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