Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiSimon & Schuster, 1992 - 303 pages A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author conducts with this beleaguered island is rich with surprising revelations and startling juxtapositions. "The best all-encompassing explanation of this . . . tragic island country that I have read".--Digby Diehl, Playboy. |
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Page 86
... didn't believe in the curse of the thirteen buried - alive slaves , I was mostly touched by the affection of these sincere entrepreneurs . " We will find them buried standing up , " my dear colleague warned . These would be alert two ...
... didn't believe in the curse of the thirteen buried - alive slaves , I was mostly touched by the affection of these sincere entrepreneurs . " We will find them buried standing up , " my dear colleague warned . These would be alert two ...
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... Didn't worry about the starvation . Didn't worry about tourism or the opinion of foreigners . " There were no tourist hotels in the time of Dessalines , " he re- marked . Like the Emperor Dessalines , he cultivated isolation and puri ...
... Didn't worry about the starvation . Didn't worry about tourism or the opinion of foreigners . " There were no tourist hotels in the time of Dessalines , " he re- marked . Like the Emperor Dessalines , he cultivated isolation and puri ...
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... didn't expect to Jean Weiner , Monsieur Noh , to Kenscoff . I didn't expect to find Jean Weiner , Monsieur Noh , and the other philosophers , Colonel Chocolat marching past the ta- bles of the Hotel de Florville , the Chinese - speaking ...
... didn't expect to Jean Weiner , Monsieur Noh , to Kenscoff . I didn't expect to find Jean Weiner , Monsieur Noh , and the other philosophers , Colonel Chocolat marching past the ta- bles of the Hotel de Florville , the Chinese - speaking ...
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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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