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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 19
Page 86
... jeep out of the streams we would be fording , tools , inspiration in the form of treasure map , rum , and good Haitian beer . Our friendship deepened . Those who didn't call me dear colleague called me Mon Vieux , that French term of ...
... jeep out of the streams we would be fording , tools , inspiration in the form of treasure map , rum , and good Haitian beer . Our friendship deepened . Those who didn't call me dear colleague called me Mon Vieux , that French term of ...
Page 96
... jeep scattered the traffic jams of black Haitian pigs , flailing dust ; the cochons noirs as skinny and speedy as dogs . There was a pension , telephones and electricity which rarely worked , the mud huts of an African village - and in ...
... jeep scattered the traffic jams of black Haitian pigs , flailing dust ; the cochons noirs as skinny and speedy as dogs . There was a pension , telephones and electricity which rarely worked , the mud huts of an African village - and in ...
Page 246
... jeep along with her daughter . The officer began sounding his horn in imperative steady honks to summon the troops . They crowded into the jeep along with the child and her mother . " This wasn't an affair of voodoo , " the ethnologist ...
... jeep along with her daughter . The officer began sounding his horn in imperative steady honks to summon the troops . They crowded into the jeep along with the child and her mother . " This wasn't an affair of voodoo , " the ethnologist ...
Table des matières
Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Droits d'auteur | |
8 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
African airport American Army asked Aubelin Jolicoeur Aubie Baby Doc Baron Samedi Bazin blanc Bogat called Caribbean Carnival chickens coffee colonel Creole dance daughter dear dechoukaj Dieudonné Lamothe Doc's doctor dream drink drove drums election elite English eyes foreign François Duvalier French Grand Hotel Oloffson Haiti Haitian happy head Hotel Oloffson houngan island Jacmel Jean Weiner Jean-Claude Jean-Claude Duvalier jeep Jews journalist Kenscoff killed knew laughing Leopards lived looked loupgarou macoutes Madame Marc Bazin Miami minglers Minister Monsieur mountain mulatto Namphy National Palace night official painting Papa Doc Paris peasants Peter-Paul Pétionville Petit Goâve pigs political Port-au-Prince President President-for-Life regime road runners running seemed slave smiling sometimes stared streets terrace tonton macoutes took tourist tropical village visitors voodoo voodoo ceremonies voodoo priest vote wanted watch wife women young