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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... pigs without body hair . They resemble big creamy Iowa pigs , but they are loup- garous . The doggy black Haitian pigs are the good guys . Sometimes a horse , a sheep , especially the ones who baa at night , an owl , even a glowworm or ...
... pigs without body hair . They resemble big creamy Iowa pigs , but they are loup- garous . The doggy black Haitian pigs are the good guys . Sometimes a horse , a sheep , especially the ones who baa at night , an owl , even a glowworm or ...
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... ! Soon purified water ! " cried the Minister . Bruno was moving his lips . Gretchen was dozing . Conchita wanted to know when the picnic began . " That is a 147 pig ? " she remarked . In Mexico the pigs BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
... ! Soon purified water ! " cried the Minister . Bruno was moving his lips . Gretchen was dozing . Conchita wanted to know when the picnic began . " That is a 147 pig ? " she remarked . In Mexico the pigs BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
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... pig . They would eventually replace the Haitian pigs with huge pink and white American porkers . But that wasn't the point . The American pigs , clumsy and stumbly , couldn't be led to market on a string . They weren't cute , they weren ...
... pig . They would eventually replace the Haitian pigs with huge pink and white American porkers . But that wasn't the point . The American pigs , clumsy and stumbly , couldn't be led to market on a string . They weren't cute , they weren ...
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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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