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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... foreign to the Haitian way . Yet national habit is one matter and individual personality an- other . Every American in Port - au - Prince knew a few angry Haitians who defied climate , custom , and public pressure , arriving at work ...
... foreign to the Haitian way . Yet national habit is one matter and individual personality an- other . Every American in Port - au - Prince knew a few angry Haitians who defied climate , custom , and public pressure , arriving at work ...
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... foreign gods was riding bravely over the local demons . Loupgarous are threatening , the prospect of being changed into a zombie is scary , but life provides protections . Both Christianity and voodoo can save a person in the ...
... foreign gods was riding bravely over the local demons . Loupgarous are threatening , the prospect of being changed into a zombie is scary , but life provides protections . Both Christianity and voodoo can save a person in the ...
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... foreign aid . American help had been suspended under President Kennedy partly because Papa Doc insisted on controlling the payrolls . He didn't fret now about the uncompleted projects , irrigation , soil conservation , reforestation ...
... foreign aid . American help had been suspended under President Kennedy partly because Papa Doc insisted on controlling the payrolls . He didn't fret now about the uncompleted projects , irrigation , soil conservation , reforestation ...
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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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