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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Page 45
... didn't say what he was doing near the cemetery at midnight . In the city , a " masters - of " -he had studied at Columbia University - reported sightings of the loupgarous who roam the streets in unlit cars with no license plates ...
... didn't say what he was doing near the cemetery at midnight . In the city , a " masters - of " -he had studied at Columbia University - reported sightings of the loupgarous who roam the streets in unlit cars with no license plates ...
Page 86
... didn't believe in the curse of the thirteen buried - alive slaves , I was mostly touched by the affection of these sincere entrepreneurs . " We will find them buried standing up , " my dear colleague warned . These would be alert two ...
... didn't believe in the curse of the thirteen buried - alive slaves , I was mostly touched by the affection of these sincere entrepreneurs . " We will find them buried standing up , " my dear colleague warned . These would be alert two ...
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... Didn't worry about the starvation . Didn't worry about tourism or the opinion of foreigners . " There were no tourist hotels in the time of Dessalines , " he re- marked . Like the Emperor Dessalines , he cultivated isolation and puri ...
... Didn't worry about the starvation . Didn't worry about tourism or the opinion of foreigners . " There were no tourist hotels in the time of Dessalines , " he re- marked . Like the Emperor Dessalines , he cultivated isolation and puri ...
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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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