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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... played the flute for the Troupe Folklorique Nationale . No one knew where he found a flute , an instrument barely known in Haiti , although pipes made of bamboo and American Marine whistles are used in voodoo ceremonies , Carni- val and ...
... played the flute for the Troupe Folklorique Nationale . No one knew where he found a flute , an instrument barely known in Haiti , although pipes made of bamboo and American Marine whistles are used in voodoo ceremonies , Carni- val and ...
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... played with foreign businessmen — not so much with Brown & Root , not the big companies from Texas , but with the tasty little innocents like Morgen . Morgen didn't know what he was doing . However , if he improved the balance of the ...
... played with foreign businessmen — not so much with Brown & Root , not the big companies from Texas , but with the tasty little innocents like Morgen . Morgen didn't know what he was doing . However , if he improved the balance of the ...
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... played by Richard Burton in the film of Graham Greene's novel about Haiti , The Comedians . He was not the normal hotel keeper . When I noticed that he left the money on the desk and locked the stationery in his safe , I told him he had ...
... played by Richard Burton in the film of Graham Greene's novel about Haiti , The Comedians . He was not the normal hotel keeper . When I noticed that he left the money on the desk and locked the stationery in his safe , I told him he had ...
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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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