Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiBeautiful, 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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Avis d'utilisateur - cblaker - LibraryThingAs recently as the 1980s a "werewolf" was publicly burned in Haiti. If that sentence doesn't intrigue, I'm not sure anything will. The werewolf this is part of Voodoo beliefs (and the belief makes ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - SeriousGrace - LibraryThingHerbert Gold discovered Haiti on a Fulbright Scholarship. This was to be the beginning of an addiction to a hellish paradise. For the next forty years Gold traveled between the States and the ... Consulter l'avis complet
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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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American Army arrived asked Baby Doc began believe called carried chickens coffee course Creole Damballa dance daughter didn't doctor don't dream drink drums Duvalier election elite English explained eyes face followed foreign French gave give Haiti Haitian hand happy head hope island Jean Jews Kenscoff killed kind knew later laughing lived looked loupgarou macoutes magic Minister morning mountain never night offered official Oloffson painting Papa Doc Paris past peasants perhaps person pigs planned played political Port-au-Prince President rich road running seemed smiling sometimes stay stopped streets suffered tell things thought told took tourist trying turned United visitors voodoo waiting walk wanted watch wife women young
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| Titre | Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti Destination book." |
| Auteur | Herbert Gold |
| Collaborateur | Jan Morris |
| Éditeur | Prentice Hall Press, 1991 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 25 sept. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0133723275, 9780133723274 |
| Longueur | 303 pages |
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