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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... village , and now , with another generation gone by , I wonder what of Schneider's mark on life can still be felt there . Has one of the mixed - blood Schneiders learned to sew and use the treadle ? Have they scattered ? How many ...
... village , and now , with another generation gone by , I wonder what of Schneider's mark on life can still be felt there . Has one of the mixed - blood Schneiders learned to sew and use the treadle ? Have they scattered ? How many ...
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... village to keep him company every afternoon amid the mounds of beans , the scales , the steel barrels . The group included a retired Haitian senator , a doctor - lawyer ( degrees from Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a ...
... village to keep him company every afternoon amid the mounds of beans , the scales , the steel barrels . The group included a retired Haitian senator , a doctor - lawyer ( degrees from Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a ...
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... village to see how people were surviving . We brought money to offer the ma- coutes at the roadblocks . " The place feels like a lighted fuse , " I said . " The fuse isn't even lit yet . It's just rotting . ' The village near Croix ...
... village to see how people were surviving . We brought money to offer the ma- coutes at the roadblocks . " The place feels like a lighted fuse , " I said . " The fuse isn't even lit yet . It's just rotting . ' The village near Croix ...
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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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