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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... Drums and whistles greet the tropical night . The entire mobbed city sways under its yellow - gray twilight skies . The vaccins , bamboo reeds , make their hoarse piping and the drums drum and the dancers are taken by the dance . But ...
... Drums and whistles greet the tropical night . The entire mobbed city sways under its yellow - gray twilight skies . The vaccins , bamboo reeds , make their hoarse piping and the drums drum and the dancers are taken by the dance . But ...
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... drums rocked and rolled us to sleep . It was as soothing as low thunder , and no more ominous . For recreation , I ... drum , beat the drum - was changed to " Blanc tombé , blanc tombé❞ — the white guy fell , the white guy fell ...
... drums rocked and rolled us to sleep . It was as soothing as low thunder , and no more ominous . For recreation , I ... drum , beat the drum - was changed to " Blanc tombé , blanc tombé❞ — the white guy fell , the white guy fell ...
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... drums of a coumbite , the cooperative work rite , a survival of a West African custom , in which the people of a district join to do a job while making a small festival of it . Often they will construct a caille - paille for a family in ...
... drums of a coumbite , the cooperative work rite , a survival of a West African custom , in which the people of a district join to do a job while making a small festival of it . Often they will construct a caille - paille for a family in ...
Table des matières
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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