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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... Petit Goâve : here two the leopard pets of Oliver Coquelin roamed the Imperial Cocoyer Yacht Club and the hotel Relais de l'Empereur . Cabaret : renamed Duvalierville by Papa Doc , who constructed a " model city " in his honor of what ...
... Petit Goâve : here two the leopard pets of Oliver Coquelin roamed the Imperial Cocoyer Yacht Club and the hotel Relais de l'Empereur . Cabaret : renamed Duvalierville by Papa Doc , who constructed a " model city " in his honor of what ...
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... Petit Goâve a couple of hours drive from Port - au - Prince . Lonely without any visitors or tourists , he im- ported two baby leopards as pets . In time these get to be big cats . One day at the Oloffson , a pretty young woman from ...
... Petit Goâve a couple of hours drive from Port - au - Prince . Lonely without any visitors or tourists , he im- ported two baby leopards as pets . In time these get to be big cats . One day at the Oloffson , a pretty young woman from ...
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... Petit Goâve , putting him in the hospital . There was outrage in the village and word got back all the way to the National Palace . The President - for - Life telephoned the police chief of Petit Goâve , who promised to look into the ...
... Petit Goâve , putting him in the hospital . There was outrage in the village and word got back all the way to the National Palace . The President - for - Life telephoned the police chief of Petit Goâve , who promised to look into the ...
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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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