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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... Paris . Then , in 1915 , the integration of Haiti into American hemi- spheric affairs began with the military occupation of Haiti by Ameri- can Marines . The public explanation for the occupation involved disorders in Port - au - Prince ...
... Paris . Then , in 1915 , the integration of Haiti into American hemi- spheric affairs began with the military occupation of Haiti by Ameri- can Marines . The public explanation for the occupation involved disorders in Port - au - Prince ...
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... Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a schoolmaster , an occasional honored guest . Sometimes the guest was the Breton village priest , although the Phi- losophers were all nonbelievers ; sometimes it was the American writer ...
... Paris , but never prac- ticed either trade ) , a schoolmaster , an occasional honored guest . Sometimes the guest was the Breton village priest , although the Phi- losophers were all nonbelievers ; sometimes it was the American writer ...
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... Paris , they said he was doing research in Africa . Thirty years later in Paris , criminally jetlagged , I was walking at three A.M. in St. - Germain - des - Prés and stared through a window at a group of celebrants closing a brasserie ...
... Paris , they said he was doing research in Africa . Thirty years later in Paris , criminally jetlagged , I was walking at three A.M. in St. - Germain - des - Prés and stared through a window at a group of celebrants closing a brasserie ...
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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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