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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... Caribbean Sea where pirates had roamed , eaten turtle meat , and banked their booty in the ground with tormented souls to stand watch over it in lieu of bank tellers or stools . We followed the map , tracing our fingers along various ...
... Caribbean Sea where pirates had roamed , eaten turtle meat , and banked their booty in the ground with tormented souls to stand watch over it in lieu of bank tellers or stools . We followed the map , tracing our fingers along various ...
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... Caribbean , Inc. , which seemed to have no DuPonts but definitely had some well - connected Haitian partners , was making a small step toward buying the country . It had a contract to control the Île de la Tortue , also called Tortuga ...
... Caribbean , Inc. , which seemed to have no DuPonts but definitely had some well - connected Haitian partners , was making a small step toward buying the country . It had a contract to control the Île de la Tortue , also called Tortuga ...
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... Caribbean island that is poor in wildlife , deprived of monkeys - monkeys . I aimed for verisimilitude . There could be no monkeys in my book . I suppose I was trying to treat this evening at the salon of Monsieur G. as a normal social ...
... Caribbean island that is poor in wildlife , deprived of monkeys - monkeys . I aimed for verisimilitude . There could be no monkeys in my book . I suppose I was trying to treat this evening at the salon of Monsieur G. as a normal social ...
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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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