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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... Jean Weiner , was an elec- trical engineer . His family , from the town of Jacmel , had been in the coffee - exporting business . A certain molding of his face and the prominent nose carried on the look of one of his grandfathers , a ...
... Jean Weiner , was an elec- trical engineer . His family , from the town of Jacmel , had been in the coffee - exporting business . A certain molding of his face and the prominent nose carried on the look of one of his grandfathers , a ...
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... Jean Weiner . In a day or two , other guests arrived , a Haitian coffee dealer from Jérémie and an English Red Cross ... Jean Weiner had sent his family abroad . Little Ti - Jean , growing up , was studying to be an electrical ...
... Jean Weiner . In a day or two , other guests arrived , a Haitian coffee dealer from Jérémie and an English Red Cross ... Jean Weiner had sent his family abroad . Little Ti - Jean , growing up , was studying to be an electrical ...
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... Jean got up and lumbered to his generator - powered refrigerator . " I forgot . You like our Shadek . " He poured me a glass of grapefruit juice . " I did this myself . As a retired electrical engineer , I still know how to squeeze ...
... Jean got up and lumbered to his generator - powered refrigerator . " I forgot . You like our Shadek . " He poured me a glass of grapefruit juice . " I did this myself . As a retired electrical engineer , I still know how to squeeze ...
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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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